
This Glossary matches the list of keywords used by Concurrences search engine. Each keyword is automatically updated by the most recent EU and national case laws from the e-Competitions Bulletin and Concurrences Review. The definitions are excerpt from from DG COMP’s Glossary of terms used in EU competition policy (© European Union, 2002) and the OECD’s Glossary of industrial organisation economics and competition law (© OECD, 1993).
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Absolute territorial protection
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Abuse of a dominant position
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Abuse of economic dependence
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Access to essential facility
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Access to information
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Access to the Commission’s file
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Act of State
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Agency agreement
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Agreement
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Amicus curiae
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Ancillary restraints
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Annulment
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Anticompetitive objet or effect
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Anticompetitive practices
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Arbitration
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Association of undertakings
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Cartel
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Case referral system (mergers)
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Change of control
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Clearance phase I (merger)
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Clearance phase II (merger)
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Collecting society
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Collective dominance
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Collective redress (class action)
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Commissioner
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Competence
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Competition policy
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Complaint
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Compulsory license
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Concerted practice
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Concession
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Concurrent jurisdiction
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Consumers protection
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Consumers’ associations
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Cooperation between NCAs
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Coordinated effects
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Copyright
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Cost-based prices
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Criminal sanctions
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Criminal sanctions
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Cross subsidisation
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E
ECHR
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Economic analysis
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Economic efficiency
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Effect on competition
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Effect on trade between Member States
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Effective judicial protection
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Entry barriers
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Environment protection
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ESA
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Essential facility
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European Competition Network
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Excess prices
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Exchange of information
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Exclusive distribution
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Exclusive purchasing agreement
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Exclusive right
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Exclusive right (Art. 106 TFEU)
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Exclusivity clause
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Exhaustion
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Extra-territoriality
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Parallel imports (parallel trade)
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Pay-for-delay
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Periodic penalty payment
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Politique de concurrence
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Predatory pricing
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Preliminary ruling (Art. 267 TFUE)
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Price discrimination
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Price fixing
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Price regulation
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Price squeeze
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Price-fixing agreement
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Prices
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Principle of equal treatment
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Principle of proportionnality
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Privacy
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Private enforcement
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Privatisation
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Procedural autonomy
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Professional association
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Prohibition (mergers)
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Public procurement
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Public undertaking
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S
Sector inquiry
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Selective distribution
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Services of general economic interest
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SIEC test (mergers)
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Single branding
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Sole control
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Spill-over effects
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Standard-Essential Patent (SEP)
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State action defense
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State aid
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State aid (compatibility)
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State aid (existing aid)
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State aid (notified aid)
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State aid (recovery)
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State aid (tax exemption)
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State aid (unlawful aid)
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State intervention
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State measure
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Sudden break of established business relationships