Tag: Competition Commissioner

  • Empowerment of the Competition Commissioner

    Empowerment of the Competition CommissionerBy 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 <a n…

  • Empowerments relating to the Leniency Notices

    Empowerments relating to the Leniency NoticesThere exist three different Leniency Notices, adopted respectively in 1996, 2002 and 2006. Depending on the transitional rules they contain, all of them could still apply. As stated above [point (17)], all final decisions on immunity or leniency …

  • Empowerments relating to the United States and Canada

    Empowerments relating to the co-operation with the United States and CanadaIn 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 Ca…

  • Ad hoc empowerment

    Ad hoc empowermentThe empowerments listed in subsections 2.2.1 to 2.2.3 are "general", in the sense that they apply to categories of acts. However, a Commissioner can also be empowered to adopt a specific act in a specific case.More about Ad hoc empowermentSuch "ad h…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 2002 Leniency Notice

    The 2002 Leniency NoticeThe Competition Commissioner has been granted the following empowerments in relation to the application of the 2002 Leniency Notice: – empowerment for informing the undertaking that the nature and content of the evidence that it proposes to disclose at a later stage …

  • 2006 Leniency Notice

    The 2006 Leniency NoticeBy decision of 4 April 2007 (PV(2007)1783, SEC(2007)439), the Commission empowered the Competition Commissioner to adopt the following decisions in relation to the application of the 2006 Leniency Notice: – to inform the companies that the evidence described which th…