{"id":360,"date":"2014-10-08T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu?p=360"},"modified":"2014-10-08T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:49:36","slug":"rejection-for-lack-of-substantiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/2014\/10\/08\/rejection-for-lack-of-substantiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection for lack of substantiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Rejection for lack of substantiation<\/h1>\n<h2>Rejection for lack of substantiation<\/h2>\n<p>An admissible complaint (i.e., a complaint that contains the information required by Form C) may also be rejected for lack of substantiation, when it fails to submit even a minimum of prima facie evidence necessary to substantiate one or several conditions for an infringement of Article 101 or 102 TFEU. <a name=\"t1\" href=\"#f1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">1<\/a>  There is no need for DG Competition to inform associated or concerned DGs. The Article 7 letter and rejection decision should be carefully worded and point out why the complaint fails to provide a minimum of indications.<\/p>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<h3>See Also<\/h3>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about Rejection for lack of substantiation in the Antitrust Manual of Procedures for the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU (Internal DG Competition)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p><a name=\"f1\" href=\"#t1\"><br \/>[Note 1]<\/a> Case 298\/83 Comit&eacute; des industries cin&eacute;matographiques des Communaut&eacute;s europ&eacute;ennes (CICCE) v Commission [1985] ECR 1105, paragraphs 21-24; Case T-198\/98 Micro Leader Business v Commission [1999] ECR II-3989, paragraphs 32-39.<\/p>\n<h3>Further Reading<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about Rejection for lack of substantiation in &#8220;An Introduction to EU Competition Law&#8221;, Moritz Lorenz (Cambridge University Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2>Rejection for lack of substantiation<\/h2>\n<p>An admissible complaint (i.e., a complaint that contains the information required by Form C) may also be rejected for lack of substantiation, when it fails to submit even a minimum of prima facie evidence necessary to substantiate one or several condition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[121,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}