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Document 11997E096

    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)
    Part Three: Community policies
    Title VI: Common rules on competition, taxation and approximation of laws
    Chapter 3: Approximation of laws
    Article 96
    Article 101 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version)
    Article 101 - EEC Treaty

    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/treaty/tec_1997/art_96/oj

    11997E096

    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version) - Part Three: Community policies - Title VI: Common rules on competition, taxation and approximation of laws - Chapter 3: Approximation of laws - Article 96 - Article 101 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version) - Article 101 - EEC Treaty

    Official Journal C 340 , 10/11/1997 P. 0215 - Consolidated version
    Official Journal C 224 , 31/08/1992 P. 0033 - Consolidated version
    (EEC Treaty - no official publication available)


    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)

    Article 96

    Where the Commission finds that a difference between the provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States is distorting the conditions of competition in the common market and that the resultant distortion needs to be eliminated, it shall consult the Member States concerned.

    If such consultation does not result in an agreement eliminating the distortion in question, the Council shall, on a proposal from the Commission, acting by a qualified majority, issue the necessary directives. The Commission and the Council may take any other appropriate measures provided for in this Treaty.

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