Examples of using Leniency programme in English and their translations into German
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The Commission leniency programme is an investigative tool see IP/06/1705.
The Court first of all recalls that the leniency programme.
The EESC supports also leniency programmes which make it possible to identify numerous infringements.
The cooperation with the investigation of three groups under the Commission's leniency programme was also rewarded.
The success of the Commission's leniency programme is an encouraging sign of its policy's effectiveness.
In connection with antitrust issues, we advise on self-reporting options and using leniency programmes.
Can the reduction of fine under the leniency programme and reduction for settling the case be cumulated?
Leniency programmes have an enormous impact on the number of detected cartels and a substantive deterrent effect.
By increasing the likelihood of discovery of secret cartels, the leniency programme is part of this system of deterrence see.
The leniency programme will therefore be maintained and, if possible, refined in future with the objective of further increasing its effectiveness.
The adoption of new competition legislation is a positive development andthe steps taken to introduce a leniency programme are welcomed.
Due to the leniency programme, usually parties involved in a cartel report existing antitrust activities to avoid the substantial fines.
InBev received no fines as they provided decisive information about the cartel under the Commission's leniency programme.
Both leniency programmes and civil liability contribute by their effects to the same aim: more effective deterrence from entering into cartels.
The treaty, Regulation(EC) No 1/2003, the 2006 guidelines and the Communication on the leniency programme- also from 2006- all constitute a framework that is working reasonably well.
Alternatively, it may also come from individuals linked to a company who want to“blow the whistle”, or evenfrom cartel members themselves, making use of the Leniency Programme.
The success of the Commission's leniency programme, which has led to an increasing number of cartel investigations, is an encouraging sign of our policy's effectiveness.
Companies that inform the Commission about a cartel and/or cooperate in the investigationcan benefit from immunity/reduction of fines under the 2002 Leniency Programme see IP/02/247 and MEMO/02/23.
A request for treatment according to a leniency programme should be applied for with each authority that may have competence in the particular case individually and, where possible, simultaneously.
In addition, the following twelve Member States are currently in the process of adopting or revising leniency programmes: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Estonia and Spain.
In order to protect the leniency programmes of the European competition authorities, immunity recipients should be liable only for the damage they have caused, not for the total harm caused by the infringement.
Flexibility regarding the amount and payments should also be considered,along with the connection with leniency programmes, and even how to overcome the differences between the systems in the various Member States.
In the opinion of the ECJ, leniency programmes are useful instruments in the fight against cartels, the effectiveness of which most certainly can be impaired by the transmission of documents from leniency proceedings to the damage claimant.
The second question that the Court has been asked is whether,where a company participates in a leniency programme, the national competition authorities may, whilst finding an infringement of competition law, refrain from imposing a fine upon it.
Supports leniency programmes which make it possible to identify numerous infringements, though it considers that the proposal offers too much protection to undertakings benefiting from those programmes, to the detriment of the victims;
Like the Commission, the Committee thinks that the leniency programmes help to detect many infringements, and feels that undertakings should not be discouraged from cooperating.
The Commission must ensure that the leniency programme is not misused to bring agreements to the attention of the Commission that previously would have fallen under the notification system that was abolished with the entry into force of Regulation(EC) No 1/2003.
In writing.-(ET) Parliament's report emphasises the usefulness of leniency programmes in exposing cartel agreements, andI am glad to be able to say here that a draft leniency programme is presently being discussed in the Estonian parliament.
The Commission first adopted a leniency programme in 199624 in order to increase effectiveness both in the detection and in the handling of cartel cases.
Inter alia, the revision of the Commission's notice on access to the file, adapting the rules on statements under the Commission's leniency programme to the discovery rules of foreign jurisdictions whilst respecting the right to access to the file, and the Hearing Officers' role as potential mediators in disputes between DG Competition and companies over whether a document is covered by legal privilege.