The new Luxembourg Competition Council adopts its internal rules

Now that 2011 Competition Act (“Loi du 23 octobre 2011 relative à la concurrence”) has entered into force on 1 February 2012 and the composition of the new Competition Council (“Conseil de la concurrence”) is complete, the latter has adopted on 11 June 2012 its internal rules of procedure (published in July 2012). The Competition Act explicitly empowers the Competition Council to adopt such rules. During the preparatory works before the adoption of the 2011 Competition Act, the State Council (“Conseil d’Etat”) [1] held that this power would be contrary to the