European Union regulators fined Heineken NV， Grolsch NV and Bavaria NV nearly 275 million euros on Wednesday for fixing Dutch beer prices.

　　The fines， including a 219.3 million euro penalty to be paid by Heineken， pushes the total levied by the European Commission against cartels in 2007 to 2 billion euros， already surpassing last year's record total.

　　The EU ordered Grolsch NV to pay 31.7 million euros and Bavaria NV 22.9 million euros for a cartel regulators said they ran from at least 1996 to 1999 to coordinate Dutch beer price increases.

　　歐盟委員會周三宣布，喜力、Ｇｒｏｌｓｃｈ和Ｂａｖａｒｉａ 3家荷蘭釀酒公司因操控荷蘭啤酒市場價格，被處以總額約2．75億歐元的罰款。

　　按照處罰決定，喜力公司被處以2．19億歐元罰款。 今年以來，歐盟委員會對結成壟斷聯盟的公司的罰款總額已突破20億歐元，超過了去年全年的罰款總額。

　　Ｇｒｏｌｓｃｈ和Ｂａｖａｒｉａ等另外兩家荷蘭公司分別被處以31.7萬歐元和22.9萬歐元罰款。調查顯示，這些公司的違法行為至少從1996年持續到1999年。