Judgments in the Cement Case: Requirement for Greater Clarity, Specificity, and Justification of Information Requests from the Commission

摘要

On 10 March 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union ('CJEU') annulled the formal requests for information issued by the European Commission (the 'Commission') to several cement producers and clarified the limits of the Commission's investigative powers, requiring the Commission to provide clear and concrete reasons where it requests information.