Horizontal agreements: The EU Commission plans to revise the block exemption mecanism for horizontal co-operation agreements and launches a public consultation

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Only two weeks after the adoption of the vertical restraints package On 20 April 2010, the European Commission today announced that it will publish a report on the "European Commission's response" to the European Commission's Communication on "The European Union's response to the crisis in the Middle East and North Africa". May 2010, its intentions regarding the revision of the exemption mechanism by category of "horizontal cooperation agreements", in the perspective of the expiry of the current rules on December 31, 2010. To do so, it publishes the three draft texts that make up this legislative package of "energy efficiency agreements". horizontal