Category: E

  • EU Courts

    EU CourtsThe Court of Justice of the European Union is one of the EU institutions. It is based in Luxembourg. It is now composed of three different courts: the Court of Justice of the European Union ("Court of Justice" also known as the "ECJ") (this wording therefore ref…

  • EU public interest

    The notion of "EU public interest"The term 'public' included in the notion of 'EU public interest' has been introduced to underline the public policy dimension and discretionary nature of the Commission's intervention on the basis of Article 10 and, conversely,…

  • Ex Officio Action

    Interim Measures: Ex Officio ActionArticle 8(1) of Regulation 1/2003 explicitly confirms that the Commission may issue an interim order 'acting on its own initiative'.More about Ex Officio ActionWhile it can be expected that undertakings being harmed by anti-competitive con…

  • ECN obligations

    ECN obligationsIf a National Competition authority (NCA) already informed that they are acting on a given case (i.e. the ECN data base contains information of an NCA case) 1 , Article 11(6) of Regulation 1/2003 requires that the Commission co…

  • EEA Agreement

    The EEA AgreementParties to the EEA Agreement are all EU Member States and the EFTA Members Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (Switzerland has not ratified the EEA Agreement). The objective of the Agreement, which entered into force on 1 January 1994, is to establish a dynamic and homogeneo…