Translation of "Wettbewerbswidrige absprachen" in English

EU law prohibits anti-competitive agreements, decisions and concerted practices.

This objective, which Commissioner Monti has emphasised on various occasions and continues to consider one of his top priorities, is horizontal in nature: the Commission thus takes the interest of consumers into account in all aspects of its competition policy, namely in countering anticompetitive agreements, in particular hardcore cartels, and abuses of dominant positions, but also in the control of concentrations and state aid granted by Member States.

It only contains very rudimentary provisions on restrictive agreements and abuse of dominance, and does not contain any provisions for merger control or provisions for granting block exemptions.

This could be in breach of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU) that prohibits anticompetitive agreements.

The collusion lasted from November 1999 to July 2007 and affected European buyers of windows across all Member States of the EU and European Economic Area (EEA).

The European Commission has adopted new draft rules aimed at better detection and eradication of price-fixing and other cartels.

Competition policy must ensure that the freedoms established under the internal market programme are not eroded by state aids, anticompetitive agreements or mergers orthe abuse of dominant positions: italso has the potential to contribute to the opening up of the internal market in areas which were not covered by the 1992 programme.

The Cartel Office again in 1983 adopted a number of decisions imposingfines on companies which had made anticompetitive agreements on prices,quantities, quotas or market-sharing.

On 7 September 1987 the Commission received a complaint from Aiwasi pursuant to Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 4056/86 referring in general terms to 'restrictive practices and agreements applied or planned between Che liner conferences operating in the shipping trade with west Africa'.

The European Commission has opened two own initiative investigations, to verify whether code-share agreements - a particular form of co-operation on ticket sales, implemented, in one case, between Deutsche Lufthansa (Germany) and Turkish Airlines (Turkey) and, in the second case, between TAP Portugal (Portugal) and Brussels Airlines (Belgium), is in breach of EU rules on anti-competitive agreements (Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union).

For this reason, we avoid all unfair competitive behaviour, in particular anti-competitive arrangements with customers, suppliers or competitors and all breaches of competition law.

In addition, it is important to be aware of administrative liability for unfair competition (up to 5% of income (proceeds) from the sale of products in the last accounting year preceding the year in which the fine is imposed), anticompetitive concerted actions (up to 10%), violations of sanitary legislation or failure to comply with the SES orders, etc.

Community policy must therefore promote beneficial cooperative arrangements while stamping out anti-competitive collusive practices.

The Directive does not deal with antitrust matters, such as anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominant position, mergers and acquisitions.

In today’s judgment, the Court notes, first of all, that the effectiveness of the prohibition on anti-competitive cartels would be jeopardised if applicants could not seek compensation for loss caused by an infringement of the competition rules.

The decision was addressed to all four European Topps subsidiaries which participated in the anticompetitive agreements and concerted practices and to the ultimate US parent company in view of its decisive influence on the conduct of its wholly owned subsidiaries.

In May 2006, the Commission carried out an inspection at the commercial premises of E.ON Energie AG in Munich (Germany) in order to verify its suspicions that that undertaking had participated in anti-competitive agreements.

In May 2006, the Commission carried out an inspection at the commercial premises of E.ON Energie AG in Munich in order to verify its suspicions that that undertaking had participated in anti-competitive agreements.

Today's decision should make pharmaceutical companies think twice before engaging into such anticompetitive practices, which harm both patients and taxpayers."

The following undertakings have infringed Article 81(1) of the Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement by participating, for the periods indicated, in a single and continuous infringement regarding hydrogen peroxide and sodium perborate, covering the whole EEA territory, which consisted mainly of exchanges between competitors of information on prices and sales volumes, agreements on prices, agreements on reduction of production capacity in the EEA and monitoring of the anti-competitive arrangements:

As the applicant observes, the Commission refers on a number of occasions in its decision to the fact that ABB brought considerable pressure to bear on the other undertakings in the sector in order to persuade them to subscribe to the anticompetitive arrangements in question.

For the application of the competition rules of the EEC Treaty to undertakings, this raises the question whether an undertaking existing after restructuring can be held liable for the involvement of a predecessor in the restrictive agreements.

As a consequence of the continental legal tradition, consideration of whether certain agreements are anti-competitive or not depends more on an analysis of their clauses than on their effects on the market.

Violations of laws designed to ensure and maintain a proper competition in the market by protecting trade from abusive practices such as anti-competitive agreements between competitors and monopolization.

The categories in which notification of incorrect conduct can be provided range from data security breaches and anti-competitive collusion to corruption, theft or money laundering.