This paper deals with access to the file in competition proceedings conducted by the European Commission for the enforcement of Article 101 TFEU and Article 102 TFEU (antitrust proceedings) and under the EU Merger Regulation (merger control proceedings)

Following various proposals in the academic literature, and in the light of the observed decrease in the number of leniency applications received by European competition authorities in the period 2015 – 2020, the German Monopolies Commission (Monopolkommission) proposed in 2022 to amend the...