Traduction de «Affaire instruite au titre de l'article » (Français → Anglais) :

According to the Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (5): (a) The category of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is made up of enterprises which employ fewer than 250 persons and which have an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 50 million, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 43 million (Annex, title 1, article 2(1)); (b) to remove from the category of SMEs groups of enterprises whose economic power may exceed that of genuine SMEs, a distinction should be made between various types of enterprises, depending on whether th ...[+++]ey are autonomous (paragraph 9 of introduction); (c) an ‘autonomous enterprise’ is any enterprise which is not classified as a linked enterprise (Annex, title 1, article 3(1)); and (d) a linked enterprise is one whose majority of the shareholders’ or members’ voting rights is held by another enterprise (Annex, title 1, article 3(3)(a)).

5. The decisions which the Authority takes pursuant to Article 17, 18 or 19 shall be made public and shall state the identity of the competent authority or financial institution concerned and the main content of the decision, unless such publication is in conflict with the legitimate interests of financial institutions in the protection of their business secrets or could seriously jeopardise the orderly functioning and integrity of financial markets or the stability of the whole or part of the financial system of the Union.

The Commission will continue to apply these rules and criteria in the same way as applied hitherto in cases brought under ex Article 228 of the EC Treaty concerning the non-notification of measures to transpose directives.

The following provisions of Annex II to the Statute are concerned: Assistant rapporteur (Article 7), provisions from Title III of the Statute that do not apply to patent litigation (Article 10), the role of European Patent Attorneys in the representation of parties (Article 11), the oral and written procedure (Article 12), the production of evidence (Article 13), interim and evidence-protection measures (Article 14), special orders in a summary procedure (Article 15), judgment by default (Article 16), the revision of a judgment (Article 17), settlement (Article 18), the oblig ...[+++]ation of all Community Courts to forward wrongly addressed documents and refer actions to the competent court (Article 19), the stay of proceedings (Article 20), the transmission of decisions (Article 21), the enforcement of decisions (Article 22) and Court fees (Article 23).

In particular, the doctrine of "essential facilities" is complementary to existing general obligations imposed on dominant undertaking, such as the obligation not to discriminate among customers and has been applied in cases under Article 82 in exceptional circumstances, such as where the refusal to supply or to grant access to third parties would limit or prevent the emergence of new markets, or new products, contrary to Article 82(b) of the Treaty.

In particular, the doctrine of "essential facilities" is complementary to existing general obligations imposed on dominant undertaking, such as the obligation not to discriminate among customers and has been applied in cases under Article 82 in exceptional circumstances, such as where the refusal to supply or to grant access to third parties would limit or prevent the emergence of new markets, or new products, contrary to Article 82(b) of the Treaty.