Commissioner for Competition

Acting Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager

The Commissioner for Competition is a member of the European Commission responsible for commercial competition , corporate mergers and anti-trust legislation . Margrethe Vestager has been Commissioner for Competition in the Juncker Commission and the Von der Leyen Commission since November 2014 .

The Competition Directorate General , which reports to the Commission for Competition, has far-reaching influence both in the approval of subsidies by Member States and in merger and monopoly control. This also affects multinational companies that are not based in the EU but are active in the European single market . In the past, mergers such as B. the US companies General Electric and Honeywell were prevented and fines of up to over a billion euros were imposed, for example against Microsoft (a total of € 1.7 billion), Intel (€ 1.06 billion), and ThyssenKrupp (€ 478 million ) ) or Siemens (€ 419 million). Since the European Commission has very far-reaching competencies in competition policy, the office is considered a key department.

Previous incumbent

Commissioner	Term of office	Country	national party	European party / political direction
Margrethe Vestager	since 2014	Denmark	RV	ALDE
Joaquín Almunia	2010-2014	Spain	PSOE	SPE
Neelie Kroes	2004-2010	Netherlands	VVD	ELDR
Mario Monti	1999-2004	Italy	independent
Karel Van Miert	1993 - 1999	Belgium	SP	SPE
Leon Brittan	1989-1993	United Kingdom	Conservative party	ED
Peter Sutherland	1985-1989	Ireland	FG	EPP
Frans Andriessen	1981-1985	Netherlands	CDA	EPP
Raymond Vouel	1976-1981	Luxembourg	LSAP	SPE
Albert Borschette	1970 - 1976	Luxembourg	independent
Maan Sassen	1967-1970	Netherlands	CIP	Christian Democratic
Hans von der Groeben	1959 - 1967	Germany	CDU related	Christian Democratic

See also

• European competition law
• Hearing officer
• General Directorate for Competition
• List of the highest penalties for antitrust violations in the EU

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dpa: The new commissioners: From old hands and newcomers - the new EU Commission . In: The time . November 27, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed December 1, 2019]).
2. ↑ Intel announces appeal against EU fine. Heise Zeitschriftenverlag, accessed on May 13, 2009 .