by Kevin Coates | May 14, 2014
Originally published at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:52008XC0702(01) Commission Notice on the conduct of settlement procedures in view of the adoption of Decisions pursuant to Article 7 and Article 23 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003...
by 21st Century Competition | May 7, 2014
Practice by manufacturers or suppliers, relating to the resale of their products and leading to a separation of markets or territories. Under absolute territorial protection, a single distributor obtains the rights from a manufacturer to market a product in a certain...
by 21st Century Competition | May 7, 2014
Anti-competitive business practices (including improper exploitation of customers or exclusion of competitors) which a dominant firm may use in order to maintain or increase its position in the market. Competition law prohibits such behaviour, as it damages true...
by 21st Century Competition | May 7, 2014
Right of natural or legal persons who are parties to a Commission investigation to see the Commission’s file, whenever the Commission proposes to adopt a decision which would be unfavourable to those parties. Access is given during the course of the administrative...
by 21st Century Competition | May 7, 2014
Sales made by actively approaching individual customers inside another distributor’s exclusive territory or exclusive customer group. This may be, for instance, by direct mail or visits; by actively approach- ing a specific customer group or customers in a specific...