A PRESUMPTION OF CONFIDENTIALITY: THE GENERAL COURT ADDS NEW RESTRICTIONS TO THE ACCESS TO DOCUMENTATION OF PROCEEDINGS

With a recent judgment in the case T-623/13, the General Court ratified the presumption used by the European Commission for which documents exchanged between the Commission and a national competition authority in proceedings concerning an infringement of the competition rules may harm the commercial interest of the undertakings involved and therefore are not, in principle,…