{"id":380,"date":"2014-10-08T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu?p=380"},"modified":"2014-10-08T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:49:36","slug":"request-for-information-to-addressees-located-outside-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/2014\/10\/08\/request-for-information-to-addressees-located-outside-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Request for Information to  Addressees located outside the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Request for Information to  Addressees located outside the EU<\/h1>\n<h2>Addressees located outside the EU<\/h2>\n<p>Requests can be sent to undertakings and associations of undertakings in an EFTA country that is member of the European Economic Area (EEA), i.e. Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein (but not including Switzerland). Such request can be drafted in the same way as requests to companies located within the EU including the possibility of imposing fines.<\/p>\n<h3>More about Request for Information to  Addressees located outside the EU<\/h3>\n<p>The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) must receive a copy of such requests (as well as of decisions under Article 18 (3) of Regulation 1\/2003). This must be indicated on the stamp showing to whom copies of the request for information must be sent.<\/p>\n<h3>More about the Subject<\/h3>\n<p>Requests for information may also be sent to undertakings \/ associations of undertakings outside the EEA. Where the undertaking has a subsidiary within the EEA, the request may be sent in addition to the subsidiary. If the request is sent to the undertaking located outside the EEA, the section relating to fines and periodic penalty payments as well as the relevant sections in the annex are not applicable.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Considerations<\/h3>\n<p>The letters can be sent directly to the undertakings and do not need to be channelled through delegations of the EU in the respective countries.<\/p>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<h3>See Also<\/h3>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about Request for Information to  Addressees located outside the EU 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 Request for Information to  Addressees located outside the EU in EU Competition Procedure, 3rd. Edition, Edited by Luis Ortiz Blanco (Oxford University Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2>Addressees located outside the EU<\/h2>\n<p>Requests can be sent to undertakings and associations of undertakings in an EFTA country that is member of the European Economic Area (EEA), i.e. Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein (but not including Switzerland). Such request can be drafted in the same way as r&#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":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}