Traduction de «application à l'horizontale » (Français → Anglais) :

19. Despite this progress, there remains room for further cooperation and convergence, especially on the development of substantive tests for guidance documents (such as the Commission's Horizontal and Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines) and their applications and interpretations by competition authorities and courts exercising judicial review.

(1) Council Regulation (EC) No 994/98 of 7 May 1998 on the application of Articles 92 and 93 of the Treaty establishing the European Community to certain categories of horizontal State aid, empowers the Commission to declare by means of regulations that certain specified categories of aid are compatible with the internal market and are exempted from the notification requirement of Article 108(3) of the Treaty.

However, since then the scepticism on equality on a European level has evolved to become a point of view with integrated horizontal applications in all policies and actions.

As maritime transport services are characterised by extensive cooperation agreements between competing carriers, the Guidelines on the applicability of Article 81 of the Treaty to horizontal cooperation agreements (6) (the Guidelines on Horizontal Cooperation) and the Guidelines on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty (7) are particularly relevant.

Finally, pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 994/98 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty establishing the European Community to certain categories of horizontal State aid [23], the Commission has continued its work on reforming the procedural rules applicable in the case of aids less likely to create distortions of competition.

(12) structural measures not directly related to the production of wine should fall within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and amending and repeating certain Regulations(44); measures related to promotion make an important contribution to the sector's competitive performance and notably the promotion of Community wine on third-country markets should be stimulated; however, in order to ensure consistency with the general promotion policy of the Community, measures related to the wine sector should fall within the scope of horizontal rules on ...[+++]this matter; for this purpose, the Commission has submitted a proposal for a Regulation on measures to promote and provide information on agricultural products in third countries(45);