35Thus, Articles 3 and 4 of Directive 98/59 provide that the competent public authority must be notified of projected collective redundancies and that such redundancies cannot take effect until the end of a period which that authority must use to seek solutions to the problems raised by them (judgment of 21 December 2016, AGET Iraklis, C‑201/15, EU:C:2016:972, paragraph 40). As the Advocate General stated in point 34 of his Opinion, that obligation to notify must allow the competent public authority to explore, on the basis of all the information forwarded to it by the employer, the possibilities of limiting the negative consequences of those redundancies by means of measures tailored to the data characterising the labour market and economic activity to which those collective redundancies relate. By contrast, the forwarding to that authority of the copy of information referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 2(3) of that directive does not trigger a time limit that must be observed by the employer or create an obligation on the part of the competent public authority.
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