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Correspondence with the complainants
Correspondence with the complainants and leniency applicantsPursuant to Art. 2 of Regulation 1/58, the reply and the subsequent correspondence addressed to the complainant will be in the language of their complaint, even if this is not the language of the Member State where they are located…
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Court Procedure
ProcedureThe procedure before the General Court and the Court of Justice is written and (possibly) oral.ResourcesSee AlsoReferencesInformation about Court Procedure in the Antitrust Manual of Procedures for the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU (Interna…
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Court procedures
Basic elements of EU Court proceduresThe Court procedures are managed by the Legal Service, whose agents represent the Commission. Therefore, the following paragraphs only provide very general information that can be of interest for DG Competition case-teams.ResourcesSee Also</…
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Court procedures Chambers
ChambersAlthough it is legally possible that a judgment is delivered by the full Court (the 27 judges), this has become exceptional in practice. Both the General Court and the Court of Justice generally decide cases in Chambers, composed of a more limited number of judges (frequently 3 or 5…
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Competition Commissioner and the Regulation No 1/2003
Empowerment of the Competition Commissioner for the application of Regulation No 1/2003 in generalOn 28 April 2004 the Commission adopted a decision with a comprehensive set of empowerments (PV(2004) 1655, SEC(2004) 520/2) as extended by PV(2006) 1763, SEC(2006) 1368 for the Competition Com…
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Competition Commissioner and the statement of objections
Empowerment of the Competition Commissioner for the application of Regulation No 1/2003: The special case of the statement of objectionsThe empowerment for the determination and issuance of a statement of objections is the only empowerment which must be exercised in agreement with the Presi…
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Complaint cases
Complaint cases: Information of ComplainantIn cases where a complaint was lodged to the Commission against the agreement or practice for which the undertakings have offered commitments, the Commission needs to adopt two different decisions (unless the complaint is withdrawn): one rejecting …
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Conditions for opening of proceedings
Conditions for opening of proceedingsThe conditions for opening proceedings are twofold: – Proceedings are opened "with a view to adopting a decision" under Articles 7 to 10 of Regulation 1/2003. 1 It follows that proceedings canno…
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Conducting oral hearings
Conducting oral hearingsA core aspect of the Hearing Officer's functions consists of preparing, organising, chairing and conducting the oral hearing in antitrust, cartel and merger proceedings. If a party requests in its reply to the Statement of objections to be heard orally, the Heari…
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Confidential information
Access to the file and protection of confidential informationWhen the Commission has to grant access to the file, it will also need to grant access to the recordings of any interviews carried out during the investigation and included in the file.More about Confidential informationI…