posted on 2018-01-09, 14:36authored byAnne C. Witt
This paper critically examines the European Commission’s commitment to employing a more ‘effects-based’ approach to enforcing Article 101 TFEU. It finds that, while the Commission has developed an impressive theoretical framework for assessing the effects of agreements on competition, there has in fact been very little effects analysis in its decisional practice since 2004. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the anticompetitive effects of prohibited agreements have instead been presumed on the basis of the ‘object rule’. This paper explores possible reasons for this development, and examines whether alternative forms of enforcement are addressing the void that the focus on object restrictions has left. It concludes that Article 101 TFEU is currently not being enforced effectively against restrictions of competition by effect.
History
Citation
Common Market Law Review, 2018, 55(2), pp. 417–448
Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, ARTS AND HUMANITIES/Leicester Law School
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