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European Union competition law

In the European Union, competition law promotes the maintenance of competition within the European Single Market by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies to ensure that they do not create cartels and monopolies that would damage the interests of society.

European competition law today derives mostly from articles 101 to 109 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), as well as a series of Regulations and Directives. Four main policy areas include:


Primary authority for applying competition law within the European Union rests with European Commission and its Directorate General for Competition, although state aids in some sectors, such as agriculture, are handled by other Directorates General. The Directorates can mandate that improperly-given state aid be repaid, as was the case in 2012 with Malev Hungarian Airlines.[2]


Leading ECJ cases on competition law include Consten & Grundig v Commission and United Brands v Commission. See also List of European Court of Justice rulings#Competition for other cases.

(2014) C-413/13

FNV Kunsten Informatie en Media v Staat der Nederlanden

Viho Europe BV v Commission (1996) C-73/95 P [1996] ECR I-5457

Societe Technique Miniere v Maschinenbau Ulm GmbH [1996] ECR 234

Javico International and Javico AG v Yves Saint Laurent Parfums SA [1998] ECR I-1983

(2002) C-309/99, [2002] ECR I-1577

Wouters v Algemene Raad van de Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten

[2006] ECR I-6991, C 519/04 P

Meca-Medina and Majcen v Commission

(2001) Case T-112/99, [2001] ECR II 2459

Métropole Télévision (M6) v Commission

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Enforcement[edit]

Private actions[edit]

Since the Modernisation Regulation, the European Union has sought to encourage private enforcement of competition law.

There is the transfer of resources;

Member State

Which creates a selective advantage for one or more business undertakings;

That has the potential to distort trade between in the relevant business market; and

Affects trade between the Member States.

Competition policy

European Commissioner for Competition

Irish Competition law

Relevant market

SSNIP

State aid

US antitrust law

Jones, Alison and Sufrin, Brenda (2007) EC Competition Law: Text, Cases and Materials, Oxford University Press, 3rd Ed.  978-0-19-929904-1

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Monti, Giorgio (2007) EC Competition Law, Cambridge University Press,  0-521-70075-2

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(1966) The Law of Restrictive Practices and Monopolies, Sweet and Maxwell

Wilberforce, Richard

Whish, Richard (2008) Competition Law, 6th Ed. Oxford University Press,  978-0-19-928938-7

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Archived 15 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine; Beglinger, Jacques; Wessel Geursen (2011), Essential EU Competition Law in Charts, Budapest: HVG-ORAC / E.M.Meijers Institute of Legal Studies, Leiden University. ISBN 978-963-258-118-7. Visualization of EU Competition law, eur-charts.eu.

Tobler, Christa

Szyszczak (2007) The Regulation of the State in Competitive Markets in the EU

Geradin (Ed) (2000) The Liberalisation of State Monopolies in the European Union and Beyond

Quigley & Collins (2007) EC State Aid Law

Biondi et al. (2003) The Law of State Aids in the European Union

The European Commission's competition website for professionals

The European Commission's competition website for consumers

Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union – Articles 101–109 on competition

Information on State Aid law (Articles 107 – 109 of the TFEU)

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