The EU Commission publishes a staff working document of the vertical block exemption regulation and does not plan to relax the resale price maintenance rule for franchises

Willis, Peter; Le Strat, Ariane

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8 Sep 2020

The EU Commission publishes a staff working document of the vertical block exemption regulation and does not plan to relax the resale price maintenance rule for franchises

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EU Commission, Commission staff working document evaluation of the vertical block exemption regulation, 8 September 2020

In the last few years, franchising has become an increasingly popular distribution structure across the EU. A franchise is a vertical agreement, and therefore should not contain any of the hard-core restrictions set out in the VBER in order to benefit from the block exemption. Nonetheless, it has specific particularities which justify tailored competition

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Peter Willis
Bird & Bird (London)

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Ariane Le Strat
Bird & Bird (London)

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Peter Willis, Ariane Le Strat, The EU Commission publishes a staff working document of the vertical block exemption regulation and does not plan to relax the resale price maintenance rule for franchises, 8 September 2020, e-Competitions Franchising, Art. N° 97256

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