S.L. 379.10 Art. 3Scope of these regulations.

(1) These regulations transpose the provisions of

Chapter VI of Directive (EU) 2019/1 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 to empower the competition authorities of the Member States to be more effective enforcers and to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market.

(2) These regulations provide for a leniency programme in relation to the application of article 5 of the Act and, or of Article 101 of the TFEU, on the basis of which a participant in an alleged secret cartel, independently of the other undertakings involved in the cartel, cooperates with an investigation of the Office by voluntarily providing presentations regarding that participant’s knowledge of and role in the alleged cartel, in return for which the participant receives immunity from, or a reduction of, penalties which would otherwise have been requested by the Director General to be imposed by the Court in terms of article 21(1) of the Act on account of its involvement in the cartel.

(3) These regulations shall only apply to secret cartels, and any reference to a "cartel" in these regulations shall be construed accordingly.