Critical Considerations on the Commission’s Commitment to the Commitment Procedure

Florian Wagner-von Papp, Mar 28, 2013

Article 9 Regulation (EC) 1/2003 introduced the commitment procedure into European Union (“EU”) law. What was initially expected to be a marginal modification of the Commission’s existing practice, intended to make the informal practice of settling cases more transparent, has since developed into the de facto default type of decision for non-cartel cases. In a speech delivered on March 8, 2013, the Vice President of the European Commission