2002 Leniency Notice
The 2002 Leniency Notice
The Competition Commissioner has been granted the following empowerments in relation to the application of the 2002 Leniency Notice: – empowerment for informing the undertaking that the nature and content of the evidence that it proposes to disclose at a later stage would fulfil the conditions for granting conditional immunity (point 16, first sentence of the Leniency Notice) (PV(2002)1555, SEC(2002)119) or, on the contrary, that they do not fulfil the conditions for granting conditional immunity (PV(2006) 1733, SEC(2006)187 et /2); – empowerment to grant conditional immunity in writing to undertakings that fulfil the conditions laid down in point 15 and point 16 second sentence of the leniency Notice) (PV(2002)1555, SEC(2002)119) or, on the contrary, empowerment to reject an application for conditional immunity where it is found that the conditions laid down in point 15 and in the second sentence of point 16 have not been met (PV(2006) 1733, SEC(2006)187 et /2); – empowerment to inform, not later than the date when the statement of objections is issued, undertakings fulfilling the conditions for a reduction in fines in writing of the intention of the Commission to reduce the amount of the fine (point 26 of the leniency Notice) (PV(2002)1555, SEC(2002)119) or, on the contrary, to reject, no later than the date when the statement of objections is notified, an application for reduction of fines where it is found that the conditions laid down in points 21 and 22 of the Leniency Notice have not been met (PV(2006) 1733, SEC(2006)187 et /2).
Resources
See Also
References
- Information about 2002 Leniency Notice in the Antitrust Manual of Procedures for the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU (Internal DG Competition)
Further Reading
- Information about 2002 Leniency Notice in EU Competition Procedure, 3rd. Edition, Edited by Luis Ortiz Blanco (Oxford University Press)
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