Activites

• 1999/07/10 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 1999/445
  • OJ L 175 10.07.1999, p. 0049
• #2174
• 1999/04/29 Council Meeting
• 1999/04/29 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1999/04/29 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1999/02/09 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0066/1999 summary

    At its first reading under cooperation procedure, the European Parliament approved the proposal for a Council and Commission decision concluding the Agreement between the European Communities and the Government of Canada regarding the application of their competition laws, subject to amendments which delete the text's first recital (invoking Article 235 of the Treaty) and instead incorporate this reference into the first citation. The rapporteur was Erika Mann (PSE,DE).�

• 1999/01/19 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A4-0007/1999
• 1998/07/15 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1998/06/04 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1998)0352 summary

    OBJECTIVE: to conclude an agreement between the European Communities and Canada to promote cooperation in the application of their competition laws. SUBSTANCE: Like the agreement of 1991 (CNS94236) between the Communities and the USA, the draft agreement seeks not to establish a framework for resolving conflicts between the parties but rather to prevent conflicts from arising by establishing a cooperation and coordination system between the authorities responsible for competition (i.e. on behalf of the Community, the Commission, and on behalf of Canada, the Director of Investigation and Research appointed under the Competition Act). This cooperation is intended to improve the effectiveness of measures to prevent illicit agreements between undertakings and reduce the number of cases in which the competition authorities adopt antagonistic or incompatible decisions. The draft agreement concerns the application of: . Articles 85, 86 and 90 of the EC Treaty, Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 on the control of concentrations between undertakings and Articles 65 and 66 of the ECSC Treaty; . Canada's Competition Act; . all implementing provisions adopted on the basis of these provisions on either side and other provisions to be adopted in future. In particular, it provides for notification of cases under examination which may affect significant interests of the other Party. Thanks to this notification procedure, each competition authority will be kept informed of the other authority's activities with a view to identifying cases of mutual interest. Once it has been established that a case raises important issues, the parties may apply the cooperation or coordination provisions laid down in the agreement. The parties may agree to coordinate their implementation measures and/or to assist each other in order to improve their prospects of putting an end to an anticompetitive practice, on condition that these measures are compatible with the legislation and the interests which the Parties consider important. The draft agreement also comprises provisions on active, passive or traditional comity, making it possible, inter alia, to ask one party or another to take implementing measures in appropriate cases. Very limited provisions are laid down on exchanges of information (the draft agreement stipulates that the existing law on this point is to remain unaltered). In this respect, the agreement contains provisions relating, in particular, to the confidentiality of information exchanged. It may be divulged only on condition that significant interests of the parties are safeguarded or the information is exchanged in accordance with legislation in force in one of the parties. However, the draft agreement encourages exchanges of information where the undertakings concerned by the competition situation consent to them. Whatever the case, the information exchanged must remain confidential. �

• #1825
• 1995/01/23 Council Meeting

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1998)0352
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A4-0007/1999
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0066/1999
• : Decision 1999/445
• : OJ L 175 10.07.1999, p. 0049

History

(these mark the time of scraping, not the official date of the change)