Empowerment of the Competition Commissioner

Empowerment of the Competition Commissioner

By various Commission decisions, the Competition Commissioner has been empowered to adopt a series of acts. When adopting acts by empowerment reference must be made to the empowerment decision which specifically refers to the act to be adopted 1 . Subsections 2.2.1 to 2.2.3 describe the various decisions by which powers have been delegated to the Commissioner 2 . Subsection 2.2.4 deals with ad hoc empowerments.

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See Also

References

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

Notes

[Note 1] Since May 2008, all documents are adopted via e-Greffe within the Commission.
[Note 2] Before entry into force of Regulation 1/2003 and of the new empowerments the Commission decision-making procedures in the field of antitrust were governed by a complex set of empowerment and sub-delegation decisions from 1965, 1980, 1990, 1996, 2000 and 2002. Where those empowerment decisions concern measures to be taken under Regulation 17, they are no longer applicable and only of historical relevance. Some of the older empowerment decisions concern however measures not directly based on Regulation 17 and continue therefore to apply in parallel with the new empowerments. The empowerment decisions which continue to apply in parallel with the new empowerment package are presented in subsections 2.2.2 to 2.2.3.

Further Reading

• Information about Empowerment of the Competition Commissioner in “An Introduction to EU Competition Law”, Moritz Lorenz (Cambridge University Press)