Tag: ST

  • Statement of Objections Language regime

    Statement of Objections Language regimeThe addressee of an SO has the right to receive all the correspondence, including the SO and the final decision, in the language or one of the languages of the Member State of its location following the general rules of the national legislation in ques…

  • Statement of Objections Notification

    Notification of Statement of Objections to addresseesAn SO is addressed and notified individually to each party by the Secretariat General ("SG") together with the cover letter explaining the rights of the addressees (see further here below Section 6).More about Statement of O…

  • Statement of Objections Notification to competition authorities outside EEA

    Notification of Statement of Objections to competition authorities outside EEAIf the case concerns a non-EEA-country, the case-team should check if there is an obligation to inform the third country competition authority about the fact that an SO has been notified to a company in its jurisd…

  • Statement of Objections Reply initial time-limit

    Statement of Objections Deadline for Reply: initial time-limitThe deadline to reply to the SO starts when the parties have received the most important documents from the Commission's file (i.e. the CD-ROM/DVD)$$33% and time begins to run as from the day after the receipt of these docume…

  • Statement of Objections Submission of the reply

    Statement of Objections: Modalities for submission of the replyThe modalities for submission of the reply are set out in Article 10(3) of Regulation No 773/2004, which contains the following provisions: "The parties may, in their written submissions, set out all facts known to them whi…

  • Statement of Objections Substantive Conditions

    Statement of Objections Substantive Conditions. General rules and citation of evidenceArticle 27(1) of Regulation 1/2003 provides that the Commission must base its decisions only on objections on which the parties concerned have been able to comment. <a name=t1 href=#f1 target="_self&q…

  • State of Play meeting

    State of play meetingDG Competition endeavours to give, on its own initiative or upon request, parties subject to the proceedings ample opportunity for open and frank discussions and to make their points of view known throughout the procedure. 1<…

  • Statement of Objections Transmission outside EU

    Transmission of Statement of Objections to addressees outside EUIt often happens that undertakings having their registered offices and/or headquarters outside the EU/EEA, also have subsidiaries or branches in the territory of the EU/EEA. In such cases the SO can be notified to the undertaki…

  • Statement of Objections access to file

    Statement of Objections: Information on access to fileThe cover letter sending the SO should mention that the parties have a right to access to the file 1 and the arrangements proposed for that (see detailed description in the Module Access …

  • Statement of Objections Transmission to Member States

    Transmission of Statement of Objections to Member States and ESAVia secure e-mail connection an encrypted copy of the SO and the cover letter addressed to the undertakings are transmitted, without delay, to all NCAs. Before the transmission, remember to add the date of the SO given by the S…