(1) The competition authority shall accept summary applications from cartel participants applying to the European Commission for leniency in relation to the same cartel. This shall apply only if the application covers more than three Member States as the geographic areas affected by the cartel.
(2) Section 81m(1) sentence 2, Section 81m(2) and (3) sentences 3 and 4 shall apply mutatis mutandis to summary applications. The Member States in which the evidence of the cartel is likely to be located must also be specified.
(3) The competition authority shall request a full leniency application to be submitted once the European Commission has informed the competition authority that it is no longer pursuing the case, either in whole or in part, or if further information is necessary for delineating or allocating the case.
(4) If the applicant submits the full leniency application within the period specified by the competition authority, the full application is deemed to have been submitted at the time the summary application was received, provided that the summary application covers the same offence, the same affected products, territories and cartel participants as well as the same duration of the cartel as the leniency application filed with the European Commission.