Acting Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert

Date: 29/04/1999

this week unveiled plans to ease the workload facing his officials so that they can focus on the fight against cartels. Under his proposals, the current system which requires all corporate agreements to be notified to Brussels would be ended and some of the burden would be shifted to national authorities. “Our objective is to target the most important competition cases and companies with the biggest market share, where the biggest competition issues are likely to be raised,” Van Miert said yesterday (28 April).