Art. 10 Setting of time limits | Conduct of certain Commission proceedings | DMA

This article governs how the Commission sets and potentially extends time limits under this Regulation and its parent Regulation (EU) 2022/1925.

It establishes that the Commission must weigh up all relevant facts, legal considerations, and interests when setting time limits, with particular attention to the right to be heard and the efficiency of proceedings.

It also creates a mechanism for undertakings to request extensions, subject to the Commission's assessment of whether the request is justified and whether granting it would risk breaching the procedural deadlines set out in Regulation (EU) 2022/1925.

Important points:

The Commission is required to consider all relevant facts, law, and interests — including the right to be heard — when setting time limits.
Undertakings or associations of undertakings may request an extension of a time limit, but the request must be reasoned and submitted before the original time limit expires.
The Commission will assess whether the extension request is sufficiently substantiated and whether granting it would endanger compliance with procedural time limits under Regulation (EU) 2022/1925.

1. Where the Commission sets a time-limit under Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 or this Regulation, it shall have due regard to all relevant elements of fact and law and all the interests concerned, in particular the possibility for individuals to exercise their right to be heard and the expediency of the proceedings.
1. Where appropriate and upon reasoned request by the undertakings or associations of undertakings concerned before the expiry of the time-limit set by the Commission pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 or this Regulation, a time-limit may be extended. In deciding whether to grant such extension, the Commission shall assess whether the reasoned request is sufficiently substantiated and whether the requested extension is liable to endanger compliance with the applicable procedural time limits laid down in Regulation (EU) 2022/1925.