TY  - JOUR
TI  - The Downhill Trend in CommitmentMechanism of EU CompetitionLaw: Empirical Evidence
AB  - The European Commission has been given the authority to make commitments of undertakings in question binding with Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003. By this reform, there has been a significant increase in commitment decisions compared to prohibition decisions over time, but prohibition decisions are currently predominant again. This study discusses this downward trend in commitment decisions taken in EU competition law from 2004 to 2020 by reviewing legal developments through statistically examining the case law. Although the increase in commitment decisions is deemed beneficial in practical terms, it has increased legal uncertainties in the long run and the provision of effective competition is left to negotiations to be reached between the undertakings and the Commission, instead of a thorough application of competition law rules in a uniform and consistent manner. In this context, discussions and recommendations are presented concerning under which circumstances commitment decisions are more appropriate to make.
AU  - Erdem, Fatih Bugra
DO  - 10.36484/liberal.870204
PY  - 2021
JO  - Liberal Düşünce
VL  - 26
IS  - 102
SN  - 1300-8781
SP  - 157
EP  - 170
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/454683
ER  -