Metsäliitto and Stora Enso have decided not to appeal the Supreme Administrative Court regarding the Market Court ruling published on 3 December 2009, even though both companies do not share the Market Court’s view of the case. The Market Court imposed an infringement fine of EUR 21 million on Metsäliitto Cooperative and EUR 30 million for breach of the competition legislation during the period 1997–2004. According to the Market Court, this was a case of forbidden collaboration between forest companies with the intention of influencing the price trends of raw wood in order to keep them stable. However, the Court did not find that the forest companies would have fixed the prices to the disadvantage of forest owners, nor was the collaboration shown to have detrimental effects on the raw wood markets.

Metsäliitto and Stora Enso have decided not to appeal the Supreme Administrative Court regarding the Market Court ruling published on 3 December 2009, even though both companies do not share the Market Court’s view of the case. 

The Market Court imposed an infringement fine of EUR 21 million on Metsäliitto Cooperative and EUR 30 million for breach of the competition legislation during the period 1997–2004. According to the Market Court, this was a case of forbidden collaboration between forest companies with the intention of influencing the price trends of raw wood in order to keep them stable.

However, the Court did not find that the forest companies would have fixed the prices to the disadvantage of forest owners, nor was the collaboration shown to have detrimental effects on the raw wood markets.