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leniency programme

Defined in 2 EU acts of the Competition law and State aid group: Damages Directive First ECN+ Directive Own wording

Damages Directive, Article 2(15) First adopted 2014-11-26

a programme concerning the application of Article 101 TFEU or a corresponding provision under national law on the basis of which a participant in a secret cartel, independently of the other undertakings involved in the cartel, cooperates with an investigation of the competition authority, by voluntarily providing presentations regarding that participant's knowledge of, and role in, the cartel in return for which that participant receives, by decision or by a discontinuation of proceedings, immunity from, or a reduction in, fines for its involvement in the cartel

ECN+ Directive, Article 2(16) Own wording adopted 2018-12-11

a programme concerning the application of Article 101 TFEU or a corresponding provision under national competition law on the basis of which a participant in a secret cartel, independently of the other undertakings involved in the cartel, cooperates with an investigation of the competition authority, by voluntarily providing presentations regarding that participant's knowledge of, and role in, the cartel in return for which that participant receives, by decision or by a discontinuation of proceedings, immunity from, or a reduction in of, fines for its involvement in the cartel

Compared with Damages Directive: struck words are only in Damages Directive, marked words only here.

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