{"id":185,"date":"2014-10-08T18:49:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu?p=185"},"modified":"2014-10-08T18:49:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:49:33","slug":"guidance-letters-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/2014\/10\/08\/guidance-letters-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidance Letters Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Guidance Letters Effects<\/h1>\n<h2>The effects of Guidance Letters<\/h2>\n<p>Guidance letters are in the first place intended to help undertakings carry out, by themselves, an informed assessment of their agreements and practices.<\/p>\n<h3>More about Guidance Letters Effects<\/h3>\n<p>A guidance letter cannot prejudge the assessment of the same question by the EU Courts.<\/p>\n<h3>More about the Subject<\/h3>\n<p>Where an agreement or practice has formed the factual basis for a guidance letter, the Commission is not precluded from subsequently examining that same agreement or practice in a procedure under Regulation 1\/2003, in particular following a complaint. In that case, the Commission will take the previous guidance letter into account, subject in particular to changes in the underlying facts, to any new aspects raised by a complaint, to developments in the case law of the European Courts or wider changes of the Commission&#039;s policy.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Considerations<\/h3>\n<p>Guidance letters are not Commission decisions and do not bind Member States&#039; competition authorities or courts that have the power to apply Articles 101 and 102 TFEU. However, it is open to Member States&#039; competition authorities and courts to take account of guidance letters issued by the Commission as they see fit in the context of a case.<\/p>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<h3>See Also<\/h3>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about Guidance Letters Effects in the Antitrust Manual of Procedures for the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU (Internal DG Competition)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Further Reading<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about Guidance Letters Effects in EU Competition Procedure, 3rd. Edition, Edited by Luis Ortiz Blanco (Oxford University Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2>The effects of Guidance Letters<\/h2>\n<p>Guidance letters are in the first place intended to help undertakings carry out, by themselves, an informed assessment of their agreements and practices.<\/p>\n<h3>More about Guidance Letters Effects<\/h3>\n<p>A guidance letter cannot prejudge the assessment of the same qu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[123,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}