Oral procedure
Oral procedure
If the Competition Commissioner considers, after having consulted the President of the Commission, that in view of their economic or political importance the measures in issue should be debated, the oral procedure is used.
Resources
See Also
References
- Information about Oral procedure in the Antitrust Manual of Procedures for the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU (Internal DG Competition)
Further Reading
- Information about Oral procedure in EU Competition Procedure, 3rd. Edition, Edited by Luis Ortiz Blanco (Oxford University Press)
Oral procedure
The second part of the procedure before the General Court and Court of Justice is the oral hearing. A few weeks before the hearing, the Court provides the parties with a “Report for the Hearing”; this Report, drafted by the Judge Rapporteur, is a brief summary of the parties' arguments. Sometimes, the Court may also send a few written questions to the parties, usually to be answered in writing in advance of the hearing or sometimes orally at the hearing. During the hearing, each party presents oral pleadings before the Court – around 30 – 45 minutes is typically allowed in competition cases; parties may then be asked a series of questions by the judges and (in the case of the Court of Justice) the Advocate General (questions are an invariable feature of the hearing before the General Court but not always before the Court of Justice).
Resources
See Also
References
- Information about Oral procedure in the Antitrust Manual of Procedures for the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU (Internal DG Competition)
Further Reading
- Information about Oral procedure in EU Competition Procedure, 3rd. Edition, Edited by Luis Ortiz Blanco (Oxford University Press)
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