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Search help
Last update: 26.10.2009
The help topics below relate to the Competition case search form. For specific guidance to search for cases by policy area click here: Antitrust and Cartels, Mergers, State aid.
To find a case, you can select one or more search criteria:
- Select the relevant criteria for the search. In criteria where multiple options are possible, you can select more than one criterion by pressing the CTRL key and clicking with the mouse on several rows.
- Click on "Search" or press the "ENTER" key to run the search.
- A list of the cases matching the criteria should be displayed. The basic information provided comprise: "Policy Area", "case number", "Member state", "last decision date" and "case title". You may sort the result by clicking on heading of any of these criteria.
- On the results page you can choose to "print" the results, "Refine the search" with the same criteria or "Make a new search", which clears the form.
- Display "Show detail" in order to obtain the accessible information on a selected case or cases. Select "Hide detail" to return to the original list of cases. One can also display the details of a case in a separate screen by selecting "Case number". The content is the same as when clicking on "Show detail".
Case number
The case number is unique for each case. For example:
36463 (Antitrust, including Cartels)
M.5600 (Mergers),
N793b/1999 (State aid). More on State aid case numbers
If you are not sure about the full case number, but know a part of it, you can use the operator "%".
Examples:
- searching for "35%" will retrieve all the cases where the case number starts by "35".
- searching for "%35" will retrieve all the cases where the case number ends with "35".
- searching for "%35%" will retrieve all cases where the case number contains "35"
Case title or company title
This search tool looks for words or part of words that are contained in the title of the case or the company/organisation name. The more complete you type the name in, the more the search will be accurate, especially for composed names. If you type more than one word, the search engine will retrieve cases that contain all words in the title.
More on antitrust case titles
More State aid case titles
Decision date
This is the date when the Commission adopted its last published decision on the case. The database contains cases object of a decision from:
- For Antitrust/Cartels: 1 January 1999 (Antitrust, including Cartel). However there is a limited number of cases of 1998. A list of older cases from 1964 to 1998 can be found in the the Antitrust advanced Search form.
- For Mergers: the entry into force of the Merger Regulation on 21 September 1990.
- For State Aids: 1 January 2000.
Economic sector
NACE Rev 2 is the Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (see full list of NACE codes).
Click on "Select" to obtain the NACE code selection tree; from there you can select a major category and all subcategories or expand the list by clicking on the corresponding "+" sign to select one or more sub-categories only.
State aid: More on the use of NACE codes
Web publication date
This is the date where the information was posted on this website.
More on the publication of merger documents.
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