Translation of "Eröffnung eines verfahrens" in English

The Commission is solely responsible for initiating a WTO procedure against South Korea.

Under the EC competition rules, such an opening of the procedure should not be interpreted as a final condemnation.

Allow debtors to restructure their business without needing to formally open court proceedings;

Obviously, the position taken by the Commission when it opens a procedure and the basis on which this is done can be challenged by the governments or by the companies concerned.

The Commission would point out that, as always, should any new facts come into its possession relating to an infringement of Community legislation, it could decide to open a new procedure to verify the legality of the situation.

Since the Community framework applicable to energy taxation was substantially modified after the Commission's decisions to initiate the procedure of Article 88(2) of the Treaty, by Directive 2003/96/EC, the present final decision is limited to the period prior to 1 January 2004 when Directive 2003/96/EC became applicable.

By initiating the Article 21(5) procedure ourselves, we succeeded in bringing Ecuador to launch its own procedure to challenge the conformity of our regime.

In order to ensure legal certainty, notices should be published in the Official Journal of the European Union concerning the opening of a procedure under Article 30 of Directive 2004/17/EC, the extension of the period allowed to the Commission and the applicability of Article 30(1) on expiry of that period. It is also necessary to stipulate the information to be contained in such notices.

Given that there was some doubts within the Commission as late as November 2000 as to the utility of opening the State aid procedure on the harmful measures identified by the Code of Conduct Group, it is reasonable to claim that the existing aid procedure should have been used.

Since there was still some hope that a defensible solution could be negotiated, I was prepared to wait before opening the procedure in the hope that an early solution could be found.

France claims that the decision to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) of the Treaty is superfluous and has no legal basis.

Under these circumstances, it cannot be ruled out that beneficiaries were entitled to rely on legitimate expectations until 2 February 2002, when the decisions by the Commission to initiate the procedure laid down Article 88(2) of the Treaty with respect to the exemptions were published in the Official Journal.

The Commission's decision to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) of the Treaty finally confirmed the Commission's doubts as regards the existence or compatibility of the aid.

Therefore, any legitimate expectations and any situation of legal uncertainty as to the fact that the measures in question had to be approved by the Commission in accordance with Article 88, if they constituted State aid, ceased to exist, at the very latest, on 2 February 2002, when the Commission's decisions to initiate the procedure laid down Article 88(2) of the Treaty with respect to the exemptions were published in the Official Journal.

In the decisions by which the Commission initiated the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) of the Treaty [28], the Commission raised doubts as to whether the aids could be found compatible with the common market under Article 87(3)(a) of the Treaty.

If we have to wait for a complaint from industry and the opening of a procedure on illegal subsidies, how long will that take?

On November 1, 2013, the Amtsgericht Bonn granted the request of the company to initiate protection proceedings under self-administration.

The commencement of proceedings against a grouping on grounds of its insolvency or cessation of payments shall not by itself cause the commencement of such proceedings against its members.

While such proceedings may play an important role in some Member States, their confidential nature makes it impossible for a creditor or a court located in another Member State to know that such proceedings have been opened, thereby making it difficult to provide for the recognition of their effects throughout the Union.

The Authority may raise no objections to the notified aid measure without entering into the formal investigation procedure or, following the formal investigation procedure laid down in Article 6 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court Agreement, decide to close the procedure with a decision pursuant to Article 7 of that Protocol.

Prior to taking the decision to participate or not to participate in the ‘group coordination proceedings’, the insolvency practitioner must obtain any approval which may be required under the law of the State of the opening of proceedings for which it has been appointed.

First, this Regulation confers on the insolvency practitioner in main insolvency proceedings the possibility of giving an undertaking to local creditors that they will be treated as if secondary insolvency proceedings had been opened.