CASE COMMENT: ANTI-COMPETITIVE PRACTICE - ASSOCIATION OF UNDERTAKINGS - RESTRICTIONS OF COMPETITION BY EFFECT - CONCEPT OF ‘ANCILLARY RESTRICTION’ - APPROPRIATE ‘COUNTERFACTUAL HYPOTHESES’ - TWO-SIDED SYSTEMS

Restriction of competition by effect: The Court of Justice of the European Union confirms the anti-competitive nature of the multilateral interchange fees applied by a major card payment system (MasterCard)

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CJUE, 11 septembre 2014, affaire C-382/12 (MasterCard Inc. e.a. contre Commission)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. By stop http://curia.europa.eu/juris/docume... delivered on 11 September 2014 in Case C-382/12 (MasterCard Inc. and Others v Commission), the Court of Justice of the European Union has confirmed in all respects thejudgment of the Court of Justice of the European Communities in Case C-382/12 (MasterCard Inc. and Others v Commission). delivered by the Court of First Instance on 24 May 2012 in Case T-111/08 (MasterCard, Inc and Others v Commission), in which it validated the decision http://ec.europa.eu/competition/ant... of 19 December 2007 prohibiting multilateral interchange fees (MIFs), applied within the MasterCard card payment system, in that they had the

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