Schedule 8A, Part 1, paragraph 5

“Settlement submission” means a statement made, orally or in writing, to a competition authority by or on behalf of an undertaking— which states— that the undertaking accepts that it has infringed competition law, or that the undertaking does not accept that it has infringed competition law but will not dispute a decision of the competition authority that it has done so, which is made voluntarily, and which is made for the sole purpose of allowing the competition authority to follow a simplified or expedited procedure in connection with the infringement. References to a settlement submission include— a part of a settlement submission, a quotation from a settlement submission, all or part of a record of a settlement submission, and a copy of all or part of a settlement submission or of a record of such a submission. On the application of a claimant in competition proceedings, a court or the Tribunal may, in accordance with procedural rules, determine whether a document is a settlement submission. For the purposes of making a determination under sub-paragraph (3), the court or the Tribunal may— but may not obtain assistance from anyone else. take evidence from the author of the document, and obtain assistance from a competition authority,

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