Pursuant to Section 4(3) of the Act, applications for exemptions from the prohibition of agreements restricting competition may be submitted to the Authority.

Pursuant to Section 2(2) and Section 10(1) of the Presidential Decree No. 461 of 10 September 1991 (the Implementing Regulation), the voluntary notification of agreements and requests for exemption from the prohibition on agreements restricting competition "must contain the information and the annexes which make it possible to appraise the contents of the agreement. The Authority may require this to be done on a special form, which will be published in the bulletin in order to facilitate submission of these notices"⁽⁽⁺⁾Replaced, respectively, by Articles 3(1 and 2) and 4(1 and 2) of the Presidential Decree No. 217 of 30 April 1998. [editor’s note]⁺⁾.

The Authority has therefore produced this set of forms for the voluntary notification of agreements and requests for exemption from the prohibition on restrictive agreements, indicating the information required and the procedures for notifying agreements between undertakings, and requests for exemption. Undertakings, or their representatives, may apply to the relevant Directorates responsible for investigating agreements to obtain further information and clarification on the procedures for submitting voluntary notification and requests for authorisation.

Notifications and applications must be signed by the legal representatives of the undertakings concerned or by persons vested with a special power of attorney after the following declaration, "I/We, the undersigned, accept full liability for the completeness and truthfulness of all the information supplied, and declare that the annexed documents are complete and are identical to the originals ".

Notifications and applications must be submitted by registered post with recorded delivery, in duplicate, or delivered by hand against a receipt issued by the Secretary General or his representative between 9:00am and 5:00pm on all working days from Monday to Thursday and between 9:00am and 4:30pm on Friday at the following address: