Union de Almacenistas de Hierros de Espana v Commission: Strengthening a Climate of Trust Within the European Competition Network

Virgilio Pereira, Jeroen Capiau and Ailsa Sinclair (all DG Competition) explain Union de Almacenistas de Hierros de Espana v Commission: Strengthening a Climate of Trust Within the European Competition Network.

ABSTRACT: Documents exchanged between the European Commission and a National Competition Authority (NCA) for the enforcement of the EU antitrust rules benefit from a general presumption that they should not be accessible to the general public as the disclosure of such documents would undermine the protection of the commercial interests of the companies involved as well as the protection of the investigation of the NCA concerned.