European Competition Law
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
General Introduction
Part 1: Introduction
Title 1: Field of application
Section 1: Prohibition
A: Development and challenges
B: Ancillary restraints
C: State of necessity/Public interest
II: Exemptions
Chapter 2: Applications
Title 3: Abuse of dominant position
Title 4: Impact of intellectual property rights
Part 3: Procedure
Part 4: Mergers
Part 5: State aid
69. Cost-advantage analysis
1 minute de lecture
The rule of reason cannot in principle be applied to an agreement which, by its nature, has an anticompetitive object , whatever its objectives may be . The rule can only be implemented insofar as it is very clear that the harm to competition found is compensated by its beneficial effects. The specific assessment of an agreement, which consists in analyzing the competitive situation in the absence …