Draft DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL to empower the competition authorities of the Member States to be more effective enforcers and to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market (first reading) - Adoption of the legislative act - Statement - Main contents

Document date	23-11-2018
Publication date	24-11-2018
Reference	14278/18 ADD 1
From	General Secretariat of the Council
External link	original article
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Council of the European Union Brussels, 23 November 2018 (OR. en)

14278/18

Interinstitutional File: ADD 1

2017/0063(COD) i

CODEC 2001 RC 31 JUSTCIV 277 IA 374

'I/A' ITEM NOTE

From: General Secretariat of the Council

To: Permanent Representatives Committee/Council

Subject: Draft DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE

COUNCIL to empower the competition authorities of the Member States to

be more effective enforcers and to ensure the proper functioning of the

internal market (first reading)

• - 

  Adoption of the legislative act
• - 

  Statement

Declaration of the Commission

The Commission takes note of the text of Article 11 agreed by the European Parliament and the

Council on interim measures.

Interim measures can be a key tool for competition authorities to ensure that competition is not harmed while an investigation is on-going.

With a view to enabling competition authorities to deal more effectively with developments in fastmoving markets, the Commission commits that it will undertake an analysis of whether there are means to simplify the adoption of interim measures within the European Competition Network within two years from the date of transposition of this Directive. The results of this will be presented to the European Parliament and the Council.