Translation of "Stellung innehaben" in English

This document only relates to abuses committed by an undertaking holding a single dominant position.

Where a dominant company is present on a market, competition on that market is already weak.

I believe that, if you have to use a figure, you should use one that reflects the economic dominance of an airport, namely a percentage of national traffic, and address it to those airports that are dominant, not those which are not.

However, for this kind of foreclosure to have anti-competitive effects, at least one of the parties must have a strong market position in the market where the risks of foreclosure are assessed.

Effects on prices, output, product quality, product variety or innovation in existing markets are, however, only likely if the parties together have a strong position, entry is difficult and few other innovation activities are identifiable.

Similarly, as indicated above, the Iberian and the Italian areas have market structures with a few firms enjoying a dominant position.

In order for the Commission to intervene using Article 102 TFEU, the acquirer of the minority shareholding would need to hold a dominant position, and the acquisition would need to constitute an abuse.

The Commission’s concerns were that Distrigas could be dominant on the market for the supply of gas to large customers in Belgium and that its long-term gas supply contracts in this market could make it difficult for other gas suppliers to build up a portfolio of customers.

The spill-over markets are likely to be relevant if the markets are interdependent and the parties are in a strong position on the spill-over market.

In cases where such agreements nonetheless meet the conditions for the application of Article 101(1), the Commission will normally refrain from opening proceedings for lack of sufficient interest for the European Union unless those undertakings collectively or individually hold a dominant position in a substantial part of the internal market.

The 30 articles of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ILO Declarations and OECD guidelines provide steps towards this – but something more is required that everyone can sign up to regardless of their role or position on the globe if we are to guarantee "quality of life" also.

The 30 articles of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ILO Declarations and OECD guidelines provide steps towards this – but something more is required that everyone can sign up to regardless of their role or position on the globe if we are to guarantee "quality of life" also.

With a view to enhancing the perception of independence of credit rating agencies vis-à-vis the rated entities, it is appropriate to extend the existing rules set out in that Regulation on conflicts of interest caused by employees of the credit rating agencies to those caused by shareholders or members holding a significant position within the credit rating agency.

In national markets, with a dominant position in the hands of one or a few often vertically integrated companies, it would be irrational for them to invest in new infrastructure where this would remove congestion and bring additional competition to “their” markets.

It is also necessary to ensure that such structures do not hold a dominant position on a given market.

Further, it should be noted that scope for intervention already covers situations where companies jointly occupy a dominant position.

Incumbents and other larger operators supported the proposal to impose such obligation only on operators who were dominant on the relevant market.

They provide guidance to any airline which is a dominant purchaser of air travel agency services and wishes to avoid infringing Article 82 EC.

They also argued that in markets where there was joint dominance but where no player was dominant on its own, regulators would have no tools to combat that market power.

In fact the Commission was receiving an increasing number of complaints about firms holding a dominant position on markets which they viewed as traditionally "their own"; these firms were preventing newcomers from gaining a foothold on such markets.

In particular, each individual network should not necessarily enjoy the same position in the digital landscape as in the analogue landscape.

However, dominant companies have a responsibility not to abuse their powerful market position by restricting competition, either in the market where they are dominant or in neighbouring markets.

Where companies that might occupy a dominant position, whether by virtue of state measures or consolidation, benefit from such arrangements, particular attention needs to be paid to compliance with Article 82 of the Treaty.

For instance, if significant competitors on an existing technology market co-operate to develop a new technology which may one day replace existing products that co-operation may slow down the development of the new technology if the parties have market power on the existing market and also a strong position with respect to R & D.

With a view to enhancing the perception of independence of credit rating agencies vis-à-vis the rated entities, it is appropriate to extend the existing rules applying to conflicts of interest caused by employees of the credit rating agencies also to those caused by shareholders or members holding a significant position within the credit rating agency.