EU antitrust - Article 101 TFEU

Article 101(1) TFEU prohibits agreements and concerted practices between two or more undertakings (or associations of undertakings) which may affect trade between EU Member States and which have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the internal market. In particular, the Article 101(1) TFEU prohibition focuses on arrangements which:

  1. directly or indirectly fix purchase or selling prices or any other trading conditions

  2. limit or control production, markets, technical development or investment

  3. share markets or sources of supply

  4. apply dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage, or

  5. make the conclusion of contracts subject to tie-in of supplementary obligations unconnected with the subject matter of the contract

See Practice Note: Article 101(1) TFEU—the prohibition on restrictive agreements.

Where an agreement is determined by the Commission, national competition authorities (NCAs) or courts to have a restrictive ‘object’ or shown to produce appreciably restrictive effects within the meaning of Article 101(1) TFEU, the agreement will be illegal under Article 101(2) TFEU unless the contracting parties can

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