Translation of "Wettbewerbsbeschränkende vereinbarungen" in English

There have also been two cases where the Commission found restrictive agreements by companies and imposed fines.

Restrictive agreements which have not been declared exempt are automatically null and void.

Other types of agreement which may restrict competition are those between suppliers and retailers.

The Commission adopted several decisions concerning anti-competitive agreements.

In particular, the legislation encompasses the prohibition of restrictive agreements, as well as the abuse of dominant position.

Restrictive agreements that fulfil the conditions of a Block Exemption Regulation are allowed under Article 81.

However, some restrictive agreements between companies escape the general prohibition laid down in Article 81.

Article 101 of the TFEU prohibits anticompetitive agreements and decisions of associations of undertakings.

Article 101 of the TFEU prohibits anticompetitive agreements and decisions of associations of undertakings.

The antitrust procedure concerns the restrictive agreements and concerted practices implemented by JCB and its network of independent authorised distributors.

The EC Treaty sets out general rules applicable to restrictive practices and abuses of dominant position.

The 1991 Act recognises that some arrangements, although restrictive of competition, may produce beneficial results.

Generally, agreements between businesses restricting competition are prohibited under national and EU-legislation.

One interested party also considers that machinery rings abuse their dominant position within the meaning of Article 82 of the EC Treaty, make agreements and engage in practices that distort competition within the meaning of Article 81 of the Treaty.

Nor should it apply to restrictive agreements between different consortia operating in the same trade or between the members of such consortia.

The market share thresholds (Article 3), the hardcore list (Article 4) and the excluded restrictions (Article 5) set out in the TTBER aim at ensuring that only restrictive agreements that can reasonably be presumed to fulfil the four conditions of Article 53(3) are block exempted.

The report enlarges on the issue of the need to modernise Community competition law, both in the area of antitrust (restrictive agreements and practices, abuses of a dominant position, and state monopoly and monopoly rights), where the actions of companies may distort competition, and in the area of state aid, where the actions of Member States may produce similar effects.

Moreover, since Articles 53 and 54 both pursue the aim of maintaining effective competition on the market, consistency requires that Article 53(3) be interpreted as precluding any application of the exception rule to restrictive agreements that constitute an abuse of a dominant position [64].

The Commission has considered whether the competition rules on restrictive agreements and the abuse of a dominant position, laid down in Articles 101 and 102 TFEU respectively, could be used to intervene against anti-competitive acquisitions of minority shareholdings.

The competition authorities have the difficult task of establishing whether agreements restricting competition or illegal concerted practices are thereby coming about.

It includes rules and procedures to fight anti-competitive behaviour by companies (restrictive agreements between undertakings and abuse of dominant position), and to prevent governments from granting state aid which distorts competition in the Internal Market.

In the antitrust field, this translates into the abolition of the authorization system requiring the notification of restrictive agreements for administrative clearance and the setting up of a European Competition Network (ECN).

In the field of competition law applicable to undertakings, the EC Treaty sets out general rules applicable to restrictive practices (Article 81) and abuses of dominant position (Article 82).

Therefore, joint selling of football TV rights can only allowed if it is beneficial to the consumer and if certain safeguards are taken, as foreseen in Article 81(3) of the EU treaty, which allows the Commission to exempt restrictive agreements if they contribute to "improving the production or distribution of goods or to promoting technical or economic progress, while allowing consumers a fair share of the resulting benefit".

The Commission's objective was to create a balanced and flexible framework which would enable shipowners to conclude agreements restricting competition that passed on a fair share of the benefits to users.

This provision allows the Commission to exempt restrictive agreements if they contribute to “improving the production or distribution of goods or to promoting technical or economic progress, while allowing consumers a fair share of the resulting benefit”.