While in 2007 the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) reached its personal record in cartel’s prosecution by applying fines for €62 million in total, positioning itself, according to its Annual Report published in June 2008 (2008 Report), as the ‘top European national competition authority for fining cartels’, 2008 has indubitably been a year of decrease: ICA, indeed, applied fines in three cartel cases for ‘only’ €1.6 million in total.