Although consolidated data on the number of decisions adopted and penalties imposed by national enforcement authorities are not available, the following representative examples can be provided: between the entry into force of the Directive and mid 2011, the Italian Competition Authority issued more than 700 decisions and applied administrative fines totalling € 91 million; the French General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Issues and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) issued 1251 Reports[124] and corresponding fines amounting to approximately € 1.7 million were imposed; [125] the Latvian Consumer Rights Protection Centre took 154 binding decisions and imposed fines of € 159 400; the Finnish Consumer Ombudsman initiated 8 court ...[+++]cases; the Irish National Consumer Agency issued 14 undertakings, 116 compliance notices, 2 prohibition orders, and started 2 prosecutions; the Slovak Trade Inspection issued 46 administrative decisions and imposed a total amount of € 151 800 in fines; and, finally, 18 court rulings and 52 injunction orders were issued in Sweden.

- A general prohibition on commercial practices under which the participation of consumers in a prize competition or lottery is made conditional on the purchase of goods or services:

(2) Directive 2000/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(4) provided that a list of materials whose circulation or use as feed materials is prohibited should be drawn up on the basis of Directive 96/25/EC to replace Decision 91/516/EEC, so that the scope of the prohibitions is general and applies both to the use of the feed materials as such as well as to their use in compound feedingstuffs.

Hence, a general description of the measure must be provided, e.g. obligation not to enter the place where the protected person works, instead of obligation not to approach Street X or of protection measure adopted according to Art. X of Law Y. In case the protection measure is not known or is regulated slight differently in the second Member State, the authority of that Member State will, to the extent possible, adapt the measure to one known under its law which has similar effects and pursues the same aims.

Such provisions shall, where appropriate, include a ban, in the general interest, on the marketing of certain goods or services, particularly medicinal products, within their territory by means of distance contracts, with due regard for the Treaty.

(2) Notwithstanding that the obligations listed in Articles 1, 2 and 3 normally have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the common market and are normally liable to affect trade between Member States, the prohibition in Article 85 (1) of the Treaty may nevertheless be declared inapplicable to these agreements by virtue of Article 85 (3), albeit only under certain restrictive conditions.