03/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Commission launched a consultation procedure on draft texts to complete reform of anti-trust rules. The new system, approved by the Fifteen last year, will take effect in May 2004. It abolishes the centralised notification provision for agreements set in place since 1962 in the aim of submitting examination of matters to the most competent authority, namely the Commission or national authorities. The draft regulation and the draft additional texts will be...