Empowerments relating to the United States and Canada

Empowerments relating to the co-operation with the United States and Canada

In the framework of the cooperation with the United States and Canada, the Competition Commissioner is empowered to adopt the following acts: (a) requests to the competition authorities of the United States and of Canada to investigate anticompetitive practices under their national laws and (b) decisions to investigate anticompetitive practices at the request of those authorities (see Article V of the agreement with the United States of 1995 1 , Article III of the second agreement with the United States of 1998 2 and Article V of the agreement with Canada of 1999 3 ) (PV (2002)1572, SEC(2002) 669).

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References

• Information about Empowerments relating to the United States and Canada in the Antitrust Manual of Procedures for the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU (Internal DG Competition)

Notes

[Note 1] Decision 95/145/EC, ECSC of the Council and the Commission of 10 April 1995 concerning the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Communities and the Government of the United States of America regarding the application of their competition laws (OJ L 95, 27.4.1995, p. 45, corrigendum: OJ L 131, 15.6.1995, p. 38).
[Note 2] Agreement between the European Communities and the Government of the United States of America on the application of positive comity principles in the enforcement of their competition laws (OJ L 173, 18.6.1998, p. 28).
[Note 3] 1999/445/EC, ECSC: Council and Commission Decision of 29 April 1999 concerning the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Communities and the Government of Canada regarding the application of their competition laws (OJ L 175, 10.7.1999, p. 49).

Further Reading

• Information about Empowerments relating to the United States and Canada in “An Introduction to EU Competition Law”, Moritz Lorenz (Cambridge University Press)