PART 2Amendment of the Competition Act 1998

21.

(1)

Section 59(1) M1 is amended as follows.

(2)

Omit the definitions of—

(a)

“Article 101(1)”;

(b)

“Article 101(3)”;

(c)

“Article 102”;

(d)

“the Commission”;

(e)

“the Council”;

(f)

“the EEA Agreement”;

(g)

“the European Court”;

(h)

“the EC Competition Regulation”;

(i)

“parallel exemption”;

(j)

“section 11 exemption” (including the final “and”);

(k)

“the Treaty”.

(3)

In the definition of “the court”, for “60” substitute “ 60A ”.

(4)

At the appropriate places, insert—

““retained block exemption regulation” has the meaning given in section 10(12);”;

““retained exemption” has the meaning given in section 10(3);”.