#E2024J0031EFTA Court Upholds ESA Competition Inspection Decisions
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The judgment keeps in place two EFTA Surveillance Authority decisions requiring the companies involved to accept competition-law inspections. The Court rejected the companies’ challenges, meaning the inspections can stand and the companies must cover both their own costs and ESA’s costs.
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Key Changes
- The Court dismissed the challenges against ESA inspection decisions.
- The ESA competition inspections remain valid.
- The applicant companies must pay their own costs and ESA’s costs.
Obligations
What this law requires
The EFTA Court dismissed the applications for annulment, leaving ESA Decisions No 158/24/COL and No 159/24/COL requiring the applicants to submit to competition-law inspections under Article 20(4) of Chapter II of Protocol 4 in force.
The applicants were ordered to bear their own costs and the costs of the EFTA Surveillance Authority in the annulment proceedings.