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De minimis notice

Communication from the Commission clarifying under what conditions the impact of an agreement or practice on competition within the common market can in its view be considered to be non-appreciable, namely where the aggregate market share of the undertakings involved remains below certain thresholds. In addition, agreements between small and medium-sized enterprises are said to be rarely capable of significantly affecting trade between Member States or competition within the common market, they will in any event not normally be of sufficient Community interest to justify intervention. In short, agreements or practices falling under the "de minimis" notice are considered to be of minor Community importance and are not examined by the Commission under EU competition law. Certain cases may, however, be examined by national competition authorities. © European Commission

See Notice on agreements of minor importance which do not appreciably restrict competition under Article 101(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (De Minimis Notice) (OJ C 291, 30.8.2014, p. 1–4).

Related EU and national case law

Alain Ronzano Targeted consultation: The European Commission launches two targeted consultations on the de minimis regulation and the ex-post evaluation of the aviation guidelines (De minimis regulation; Aviation Guidelines)

29 May 2019

En janvier 2019, la Commission européenne a annoncé son intention de prolonger sept séries de règles relatives aux aides d’État pour une période de deux ans et a lancé une évaluation complète de sa politique dans le domaine des aides d’État (« bilan de qualité »). L’objectif est de vérifier dans quelle (...)

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13 March 2019

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Alain Ronzano Control: The European Commission extends the general regulation on block exemption and the de minimis regulation, as well as several guidelines and communications, and begins a quality audit (Modernization of State aid control)

7 January 2019

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3 December 2018

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Alain Ronzano De minimis: The General Court of the European Union considers that the export aids are likely to affect trade between member states and rules that the 2006 regulation on de minimis aids does not violate article 35 TFEU forbidding quantitative restrictions for export and that it does not oppose to a national rule excluding a tax benefit constituting a de minims aid when the aid is determined by the quantity exported (ZPT AD)

28 February 2018

Le 28 février 2018, la Cour de justice de l’Union a rendu son arrêt dans l’affaire C-518/16 (ZPT AD), laquelle s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une demande préjudicielle introduite par le Tribunal de la ville de Sofia en Bulgarie. À l’origine de cette demande se trouve le litige opposant « ZPT » AD à (...)

Bruno Stromsky ’De minimis’ Regulation: The Court of justice of the European Union rules that the prohibition of de minimis aids linked to export is valid and interprets it as applying only to aids whose purpose is the promotion of sales in another Member State (ZPT/Narodno)

28 February 2018

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Phedon Nicolaides The EU Court of Justice finds that Bulgaria’s refusal to grant de minimis aid on exports is valid as it related to the promotion of sales in another Member State (ZPT AD)

28 February 2018

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24 October 2017

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Christoph Krüger The German Federal Court of Justice quashes a decision which had ruled that minimum resale pricing did not result in an appreciable restriction of competition given its limited timeframe and scope (Almased Wellness)

17 October 2017

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4 August 2017

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22 June 2017

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Man Mohan Sharma The Government of India revises method of calculation of thresholds for merger control and extends target exemption to mergers and amalgamations

27 March 2017

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23 January 2017

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Man Mohan Sharma The Indian Competition Authority fines merging parties for failure to disclose global acquisition of the healthcase antisepsis business (Schulke / ASP Division of Ethicon)

13 January 2017

CCI penalizes Schulke and Mayr GmBH (Schulke) for delayed filing in relation to the acquisition of Healthcare Antisepsis Solutions (HAS) business of Johnson & Johnson Private Limited (JJPL)* CCI, by its order dated January 13, 2017 has imposed a penalty of INR 25,00,000 on Schulke on (...)

Carlos Vérgez Muñoz The Spanish Competition Authority declares exempt retail price maintenance practices by a cosmetics laboratory on the basis of the de minimis theory (Laboratorio Martí Tor)

15 December 2016

The Spanish Competition Authority (“SCA”) has considered in a decision dated 15 December 2016 that certain retail price maintenance (“RPM”) practices carried out by cosmetic laboratory Martí Tor was not capable of significantly affecting competition, and thereby, of infringing Article 1 of the (...)

Marianne Faessel, Sophie-Anne Descoubès ICN : The French Competition Authority hosts the 2016 International competition network’s Merger Roundtable

3 December 2016

77 participants de plus de 35 juridictions différentes ont participé à la table ronde du groupe de travail “Concentrations” de l’International Competition Network (ICN) organisée le 3 décembre 2016 à Paris par l’Autorité de la concurrence, co-présidente du groupe. Isabelle de Silva, présidente de (...)

Joseph Vogel, Louis Vogel The Paris Court of Appeal confirms that the Competition Authority can sue anti-competitive agreements even under the threshold of the de minimis rule (SNCF/ Expedia)

11 November 2016

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Alain Ronzano Formal investigation procedure: The Court of Justice of the European Union confirms the partial annulment of a decision finding no State aid despite serious difficulties relating to public guarantees potentially qualifying as de minimis aids (Land Hessen)

12 October 2016

Le 12 octobre 2016, la Cour de justice de l’Union a rendu un arrêt dans l’affaire C-242/15 (Land Hessen). Elle y rejette le pourvoi introduit par le Land de Hesse contre l’arrêt rendu le 17 mars 2015 dans l’affaire T-89/09 (Pollmeier Massivholz GmbH & Co. KG contre Commission européenne), à la (...)

Ciara Barbu-O’Connor, Jacques Derenne Serious difficulties: The Court of Justice of the European Union confirms the General Court of the European Union’s judgment by which the latter partially annulled a European Commission’s decision for an erroneous calculation method of the aid element of the litigious guarantees (Land Hessen / Pollmeier Massivholz)

12 October 2016

Pollmeier Massivholz est une société allemande qui exploite plusieurs scieries près de la frontière du Land de Hesse. Contexte de l’affaire En 2007, la Commission a reçu une plainte de Pollmeier Massivholz dénonçant de prétendues aides illégales visant à soutenir l’établissement d’une nouvelle scierie (...)

Werner Berg The German Government introduces proposal to reform the Act against Restraint of Competition

21 September 2016

Government proposal amends local nexus requirement for new transaction value threshold* On 21 September 2016, the German Government has introduced a formal legislative proposal (Gesetzesvorschlag – “Government Proposal”) for the reform of the Act against Restraint of Competition (“ARC”; 9th (...)

Werner Berg The German Federal Ministry of Economics proposes a transaction value threshold to require notification of high value deals even with no / de minimis sales in Germany

1 July 2016

Germany proposes transaction value threshold to require notification of high value deals even with no / de minimis sales in Germany* With little fanfare, on Friday, 1 July 2016, among a raft of other amendments to the Act against Restraint of Competition (‘ARC’; 9th amendment), the Federal (...)

Deeksha Manchanda The Competition Commission of India passes an order on assessment of vertical restraints under the Competition Act but leaves several questions unanswered (Shri Ghanshyam Das Vij / Bajaj)

12 October 2015

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on 12 October 2015 passed an order on assessment of vertical restraints under the Competition Act, 2002 (Act) — leaving many questions unanswered. Factual background A distributor of various ayurvedic and general health products of various companies (...)

André Pretorius, Henar González Durántez, Kristien Geeurickx, Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Michael Dietrich, Sergio Sorinas The EU Court of Justice rules on issues concerning retroactive rebates and the procedures through which these rebates can be characterized as abusive (Post Danmark II)

6 October 2015

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Man Mohan Sharma The Indian Competition Appellate Tribunal reverses the Indian Competition Authority’s fine imposed on a travel agency for not notifying an otherwise exempt transaction (Thomas Cook / Sterling)

26 August 2015

Competition Appellate Tribunal sets aside penalty imposed on Thomas Cook & others for nonnotification of an otherwise exempted transaction* In its first decision on substantive aspects of merger control, the Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) by its order dated August 26, 2015 has set (...)

Bruno Stromsky New aid : The General Court of the European Union considers that the Commission could not find new aid in relation to an aid scheme initially declared compatible subject to conditions which were not respected by the Member State (Italy/Commission)

24 June 2015

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Phedon Nicolaides The EU General Court reminds Member States that individual awards of de minimis aid must remain below the relevant threshold as well as the sum of all individual awards in any three-year period (Italy)

24 June 2015

The Use and Abuse of De Minimis Aid & State Resources* Individual awards of de minimis aid must remain below the relevant threshold as well as the sum of all individual awards in any three-year period. Introduction This article reviews a case that, among other things, deal with the use (...)

Inge Govaere, Pablo Ibáñez Colomo De minimis: An overview of EU and national case law

28 May 2015

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Phedon Nicolaides The EU Commission reminds that aid measures which are funded by beneficiaries themselves are unlikely to constitute State aid (Flemish Centre for Agricultural and Fisheries Marketing)

28 May 2015

Commission in decision SA.39652* Aid measures which are funded by beneficiaries themselves are unlikely to constitute State aid. De minimis aid may be granted on condition that not only individual awards of aid remain below the various thresholds defined in different de minimis regulations (...)

Bill Batchelor The ECJ Advocate General Kokott deals another blow to economic assessment of rebates (Post Danmark II)

21 May 2015

Advocate general deals another blow to economic assessment of rebates* It is never a good sign when an advocate general’s opinion warns the European Court of Justice (ECJ) not to be swayed by “ephemeral trends” or the “Zeitgeist” of economic analysis, but instead to stick to the “legal foundations (...)

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6 May 2015

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Phedon Nicolaides The EU Commission finds a measure allowing a rental agreement to accommodate medical practitioners at a preferential rate not to constitute State aid for being to limited and lacking of affectation of interstate trade (Medical centre in Durmersheim)

29 April 2015

Germany Scores a Hat-trick of Non-Aid Measures!* At the end of April, the European Commission announced that seven measures were found not to constitute State aid because they could not be reasonably expected to affect cross-border trade. The finding of no affectation of trade is rare. That (...)

Raphaël Vuitton Concept of State aid : The General Court of the European Union dismisses the appeal of Belgium against the decision of the Commission declaring partly compatible and partly incompatible with the internal market the funding of tests of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Belgium/Commission)

25 March 2015

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Phedon Nicolaides The EU Court of Justice and General Court explain how to determine whether state guarantees constitute State aid and, if yes, how much aid is involved (Banco Privado Português)

19 March 2015

State Guarantees* The amount of State aid in a guarantee that makes possible the granting of a loan to a well-collateralised firm in difficulty is not the difference in premium but the difference in interest rates. Beneficiaries of guarantees not notified to the Commission do not have any (...)

Caroline Tixier, Jacques Derenne Guarantee - Calculation : The General Court of the European Union rejects the method used by the Commission to calculate the aid element in a guarantee (Pollmeier Massivholz)

17 March 2015

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Alain Ronzano De minimis aids: The General Court of the European Union annuls in part a Commission’s decision finding no aid, pointing out serious difficulties as to whether the public guarantees involved might have been qualified as de minimis aids and led the Commission to initiate a formal investigation procedure (Pollmeier Massivholz)

17 March 2015

Tribunal, 17 mars 2015, affaire T-89/09 (Pollmeier Massivholz GmbH & Co. KG contre Commission européenne) À la faveur d’un arrêt rendu le 17 mars 2015 dans l’affaire T-89/09 (Pollmeier Massivholz GmbH & Co. KG contre Commission européenne), le Tribunal de l’Union européenne est venu annuler (...)

Raphaël Vuitton Failure of a Member State : The Court of Justice of the European Union holds that France has not taken all the necessary measures to recover aid granted illegally in the context of ‘contingency plans’ to French fruit and vegetable producers (Commission/France)

12 February 2015

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19 December 2014

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Richard Burton The European Court of Justice provides further guidance on long-term exclusive purchase and non-compete obligations (Estación de Servicio Pozuelo v Galp Energía España)

4 December 2014

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Phedon Nicolaides The European Commission finds State aid in the form of subordinated loans to SMEs to be compatible with the internal market (Subordinated loans for SMEs – Saxony)

25 November 2014

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Anaïs Moyrand, Michel Debroux De minimis: The European Commission adopts revised safe harbor rules for agreements of minor importance

30 August 2014

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5 August 2014

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Phedon Nicolaides The EU General Court upholds the decision of the Commission stating that compensatory payments can be State aid even if partially funded by private funds and specifies that recovery may exclude payments that satisfy the conditions of the relevant de minimis regulation (Greece)

16 July 2014

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30 June 2014

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Andreas Stargard The EU Commission releases its revised de minimis notice explaining that agreements having as their object the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the internal market fall outside the scope of the notice

25 June 2014

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: Revised EU de minimis notice retains % thresholds, clarifies per se rule* Nothing new: The newly-revised de minimis notice of the European Commission isn’t that novel The revised Notice (after its 1997 and 2001 predecessors) retains the 10% and 15% (...)

Alain Ronzano Article 101 TFEU: The European Commission adopts revised safe harbour rules for minor agreements ("De Minimis Notice")

25 June 2014

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25 June 2014

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13 May 2014

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Phedon Nicolaides The EU Court of Justice finds failure to fulfil treaty obligations, since the member state did not recover the aid declared unlawful and incompatible with the internal market in a timely and effective manner (Commission / Spain)

13 May 2014

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Michael Gu The Chinese MOFCOM publishes rules setting out the eligibility criteria for simple merger cases entitled to the simplified procedure

18 April 2014

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Carole Maczkovics The EU Court of Justice dismisses France’s action against the Commission’s decision declaring an unlimited guarantee incompatible with the internal market (La Poste)

3 April 2014

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Glossary

A

Absolute territorial protection • Abuse of dominant position • Abuse of economic dependence • Access to essential facility • Access to information • Access to the file • Agency agreement • Agent • Agreement (notion) • Amicus curiae • Ancillary restraints • Annulment • Anticompetitive objet or effect • Anticompetitive practices • Applicable law • Arbitration

B

Barriers to entry • Bid rigging • Block exemption (Regulation) • Boycott • Brand competition • Burden of proof • Business secrets • Buyer power

C

Cartel • Clearance phase I (merger) • Clearance phase II (merger) • Collecting society • Collective dominance • Collective redress (class action) • Competence • Competition policy • Competition policy • Complaint • Compliance programme • Compulsory license • Concerted practices • Concession • Concurrent jurisdiction • Consumers protection • Consumers’ associations • Control (change) • Control (notion) • Cooperation Agreement • Cooperation between competition authorities • Coordinated effects • Copyright • Corporate group • Corruption • Criminal sanctions • Cross subsidisation

D

Damages • Dawn raids • De minimis notice • Direct effect • Discriminatory practices • Distribution agreement • Dominance (notion)

E

ECHR • Economic analysis • Economic efficiency • Effect on trade between Member States • Effective judicial protection • Environmental protection • Essential facility • European Competition Network (ECN) • Excess prices • Exchanges of information • Exclusive distribution • Exclusive purchasing agreement • Exclusive right (Art. 106 TFEU) • Exclusivity clause • Exhaustion • Extra-territoriality

F

Failing firm defence • Fine • Fine mitigating • Foreign direct investment (FDI) • Franchising • FRAND

G

Geographic market • Group purchasing organization • Gun jumping

H

Hard core restrictions • Horizontal agreement

I

Independence and impartiality • Individual exemption • Institutions • Intellectual property right • Interim measures • International competition network (ICN) • Investigations / inquiries • Investigations/ inquiries

J

Joint control • Joint venture • Judicial review

L

Legal privilege • Leniency • Licensing • Limitation period • Low prices

M

Mandatary (distribution) • Margin squeeze • Market economy investor • Market power • Market share • Media pluralism • Merger (notion) • Merger (prohibition) • Merger (withdrawal) • Minority shareholdings • Misinformation

N

Ne bis in idem • Non-competition clause • Notification • Nullity

O

Oligopoly

P

Parallel imports (parallel trade) • Passing-on • Pay-for-delay • Periodic penalty payment • Politique de concurrence • Predatory pricing • Preliminary ruling (Art. 267 TFUE) • Price discrimination • Price-fixing agreement • Prices • Principle of effectiveness • Principle of equal treatment • Principle of equivalence • Principle of proportionnality • Privacy • Private enforcement • Privatization • Procedural autonomy • Professional association • Public procurement • Public undertaking

R

Referral (merger) • Refusal to deal • Regulated prices • Relevant market • Remedies (antitrust) • Request for information • Resale price maintenance (RPM) • Resale-below-cost • Right against self-incrimination • Rights of defence • Rule of reason

S

Sector inquiry • Selective distribution • Services of general economic interest • Single branding • Sole control • Spill-over effects • Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) • State action defense • State aid (compatibility) • State aid (existing aid) • State aid (notification) • State aid (notion) • State aid (recovery) • State aid (tax exemption) • State aid (tax ruling) • State aid (unlawful aid) • State measure • Sudden break of established business relationships

T

Test SIEC (merger) • Test SLC (merger) • Transfer of technology • Transfer pricing • Trustee (mergers) • Turnover threshold (merger) • Tying or tied selling

U

Undertaking (notion) • Unfair competition • Universal service

V

Vertical agreement • Vertical restraints (or restrictions)