Institutional aspects of european commission guidance in the area of antitrust law

Competition Policy International

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 25-34

  Smulders, B M P ^a  

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1. The Commission regularly produces and updates such documents. The most recent survey can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/ legislation/legislation.html.
2. th Ed. 37 et. seq. (2008).
3. Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 (O.J. 2003, nr L 1).
4. Case C-189/02P, Dansk Rørindustri and others / Commission, [2005] ECR I-5425.
5. Case T-59/02, Archer Daniels Midland / Commission, [2006] ECR II-3627.
6. Case C-167/04P, JCB Service/Commission, [2006] ECR I-8935.
7. Case T-374/04, Germany v. Commission, [2007] ECR II- 4431.
8. See Article 87(3) EC.
9. Case C 310/85, Deufil, [1987] ECR 901.
10. Case C-387/97, Commission v. Greece, [2000] ECR I-5047 and Case C-304/02, Commission v. France, [2005] ECR I-6263.
11. Opinion delivered on June 5, 2008 and judgment of December 9, 2008, Case C-121/07, Commission v. France, not yet reported.
12. O.J. 1980, nr. C 256.
13. O.J. 1993, nr. C 334.
14. O.J. 2004, nr. C 121.
15. Case C-234/89, Delimitis v. Henniger Bräu, [1991] ECR I-935.
16. Case C-324/98, Teleaustria and Telefonadress, [2000] ECR I-10745.
17. Opinion delivered on April 24, 2008 in Case C-347/06, not yet reported.
18. Case C-57/95, Commission v. France, [1997] ECR I-1627. See also T-258/06, Germany v. Commission (pending).
19. Case C-95/04P, British Airways v. Commission, [2007] ECR I-2331.
20. O.J. 2009, nr C 45.
21. See ¶ 3 of the communication.
22. TH ED. 210-211 (2008).
23. See ¶ 2 of the communication.
24. Case C-119/97P, UFEX and others v. Commission, [1999] ECR I-1341 and judgment of July 8, 2008 in Case T-99/04, AC Treuhand v. Commission, not yet reported.
25. See for a detailed analysis of that question, Friedrich Wenzel Bulst, Mehr Licht-Zur Anwendung des Art. 82 EG auf Behinderungsmissbräuche, forthcoming in RABELZ, Vol. 4 (2009).
26. Case C-443/97, Spain v. Commission, [2000] E.C.R. I-2415.
27. Available at http://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/art82/ discpaper2005.pdf.
28. Case T-13/99, Pfizer Animal Health v. Council, [2002] ECR II-3305.
29. Case C-125/05, VW-Audi Forhandlerforeningen, [2006] ECR I-7637.
30. Compare also Case T-170/06, Alrosa v. Commission, [2007] ECR II-2601, dealing with the limits of the Commission's powers under Article 9 of Regulation /2003 in relation to so-called commitments- appeal pending, C-441/07.
31. See supra note 29.
32. Case C-344/98, Masterfood and HB, [2000] ECR I-11369. See for an identical approach as regards the relationship between national judges and Commission decisions under the Customs Code, the ECJ's recent judgment of November 20, 2008 in Case C-375/07 Heuschen & Schrouff Oriental Foods Trading, not yet reported. See also the opinion of Advocate General Mengozzi delivered on 5 March 2009 in Case C-429/07, Inspecteur van de Belastingdienst v. X BV, not yet reported, dealing with the scope of Article 15 (3) of Regulation (EC) 1/2003 conferring the right to the Commission to submit, on its own initiative, written observations to national courts "where the coherent application of articles 81 or 82 of the Treaty so requires".