Measures of pure administration

Measures of pure administration

Measures of pure administration (“de pure gestion”)

Measures of pure administration are not decisions, submitted to a formal adoption procedure, but are issued by the services of DG COMP according to the internal division of tasks without involvement of the Legal Service or other departments.

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In practice, measures of pure administration are mostly routine measures of a technical nature and/or acts having no binding effect.

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It is impossible to list all measures of pure administration since every measure which is not reserved to the full Commission or for decision under empowerment falls within that category.

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The measures of pure administration undertaken by case-handlers are for example: – simple requests for information (Article 18(2) of Regulation 1/2003); – simple inspection based merely on written authorisation by the Director-General (Article 20(2)); – access to file; – publication of the summary of the decision in the OJ (Article 30 of Regulation 1/2003); – extension of time-limit for written reply to the statement of objections (Article 9 of the Hearing Officer Terms of Reference); [in any case, is it useful to refer to the HO Mandate; the point we are dealing with here is where there is not recourse to the HO] – convening and chairing the Advisory Committee (Article 14(3) of Regulation 1/2003); – determining the summary of the case and the preliminary draft decision to be sent to the Advisory Committee (Article 14(3) of Regulation 1/2003); – transmission to National Competition Authorities of the most important documents with a view to applying Articles 7 to 10, 29(1) (Articles 11(2) sentences 1 and 2 of Regulation 1/2003); – transmitting information in the Commission's possession to national courts (Article 15(1) first alternative, of Regulation 1/2003).

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References

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

Further Reading

  • Information about Measures of pure administration in EU Competition Procedure, 3rd. Edition, Edited by Luis Ortiz Blanco (Oxford University Press)

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