Brussels, 23/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - In competition investigations, the European Commission is entitled to ask companies to provide information from a period before EU rules were applicable if this information is necessary to enable it to assess whether there was any infringement of the rules once they became applicable.
That was what the General Court of the EU decided on Thursday 22 March in a ruling on two cases (T-458/09 and T-171/10) involving Slovakian telecommunications company...