{"id":401,"date":"2014-10-08T18:49:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu?p=401"},"modified":"2014-10-08T18:49:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T18:49:37","slug":"self-incrimination-admissible-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/2014\/10\/08\/self-incrimination-admissible-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Incrimination Admissible Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Self-Incrimination Admissible Questions<\/h1>\n<h2>Categories of questions that are admissible<\/h2>\n<p>In line with the existing case law two types of questions are fully compatible with the privilege against self-incrimination (i.e. these types of questions are lawful).<\/p>\n<h3>More about Self-Incrimination Admissible Questions<\/h3>\n<p>The provision of documentary <a name=\"t1\" href=\"#f1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">1<\/a>  evidence already in the possession of the undertaking may always be requested without infringing the privilege against self-incrimination. This applies regardless of whether or not the documents at issue contain incriminating evidence which may be used against the addressee of the request or against any other third party.<\/p>\n<h3>More about the Subject<\/h3>\n<p>Questions seeking purely factual information are normally admissible and do not infringe the privilege against self-incrimination<\/p>\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<h3>See Also<\/h3>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about Self-Incrimination Admissible Questions 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> It is submitted that &#8220;document&#8221; does not only mean written notes but in accordance with footnote 12 of the Commission Notice of 13 December 2005 on the Rules for Access to the Commission file &#8220;all forms of information support, irrespective of the storage medium. This covers also any electronic data storage device as may be or become available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Further Reading<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Information about Self-Incrimination Admissible Questions in &#8220;An Introduction to EU Competition Law&#8221;, Moritz Lorenz (Cambridge University Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2>Categories of questions that are admissible<\/h2>\n<p>In line with the existing case law two types of questions are fully compatible with the privilege against self-incrimination (i.e. these types of questions are lawful).<\/p>\n<h3>More about Self-Incrimination Admissible Questions<\/h3>\n<p>The provision of docu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[160,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"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=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/competition.lawlegal.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}