(Dis)Respect for Fundamental Rights in EU Competition Law Enforcement Proceedings Before National Authorities: In What Way Does Article 3 oif the ECN+ Directive Prove to be Open-Ended?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40319-023-01353-4" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40319-023-01353-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40319-023-01353-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s40319-023-01353-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

(Dis)Respect for Fundamental Rights in EU Competition Law Enforcement Proceedings Before National Authorities: In What Way Does Article 3 oif the ECN+ Directive Prove to be Open-Ended?

Original language description

The ECN+ Directive gives more power to national competition authorities in order to make them more effective enforcers of EU competition law. However, Article 3 of the ECN+ Directive counterbalances this step by requiring that appropriate safeguards are in place to ensure respect for fundamental rights of undertakings in EU competition law enforcement proceedings. The aim of this article is to critically reflect on the requirements of the ECN+ Directive with respect to safeguards for the fundamental rights falling within the ambit of Article 3 of the ECN+ Directive and their implementation by EU Member States. To this end, the article provides first an overview of this provision. Second, the analysis verifies – by bringing together an overview of national laws – whether the very general Article 3 is able to harmonise the safeguards in question. A comparative set of examples from EU Member States, including in particular examples from Poland and the Czech Republic, shows how the way in which Article 3 is formulated invites national legislatures to misuse the potential of this provision. This results in undertakings continuing to face a state of disparity with respect to the level of protection of their fundamental rights in competition law enforcement proceedings between the various national competition authorities.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

IIC International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law

ISSN

0018-9855

e-ISSN

2195-0237

Volume of the periodical

54

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

1081-1104

UT code for WoS article

001011509900003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85162257835