Ad hoc empowerment

Ad hoc empowerment

The empowerments listed in subsections 2.2.1 to 2.2.3 are “general”, in the sense that they apply to categories of acts. However, a Commissioner can also be empowered to adopt a specific act in a specific case.

More about Ad hoc empowerment

Such “ad hoc” empowerments are systematically added when adopting commitment decisions based on Art. 9 of Regulation 1/2003 in order to facilitate the adoption of Commission decisions implementing commitments such as the setting or extending of deadlines, approval of a purchaser in case of divestiture or nomination of a trustee / independent auditor, for which no general empowerment of the Competition Commissioner has yet been requested, due to the novelty of Art. 9 decisions, when the general empowerment decision has been adopted in 2004. See further the Chapter on Commitment decision.

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References

• Information about Ad hoc empowerment in the Antitrust Manual of Procedures for the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU (Internal DG Competition)

Further Reading

• Information about Ad hoc empowerment in EU Competition Procedure, 3rd. Edition, Edited by Luis Ortiz Blanco (Oxford University Press)