predatory pricing

Predatory Pricing Enforcement Guidelines

predatory pricing

farm prices [ Community farm price | EC farm price | price for the marketing year | Agricultural tariff(STW) ]

crowding out effect | crowding-out effect

administered price

budget price | reasonable price

The second Statement of Objections takes the preliminary view that between 2009 and 2011 Qualcomm engaged in 'predatory pricing' by selling certain baseband chipsets at prices below costs, with the intention of hindering competition in the market.

I think there are probably other examples, other industries in which the conduct that's being complained of could be in the nature of, say, predatory pricing, where there could be quite a few complaints about a certain kind of conduct, but the question is, what does the interpretation mean, and how would the tribunal interpret predatory pricing in a given context?

If the data clearly suggest that an equally efficient competitor can compete effectively with the pricing conduct of the dominant undertaking, the Commission will, in principle, infer that the dominant undertaking's pricing conduct is not likely to have an adverse impact on effective competition, and thus on consumers, and will therefore be unlikely to intervene. If, on the contrary, the data suggest that the price charged by the dominant undertaking has the potential to foreclose equally efficient competitors, then the Commission will integrate this in the general assessment of anti-competitive foreclosure (see ...[+++]Section B above), taking into account other relevant quantitative and/or qualitative evidence.

The considerations in paragraphs 23 to 27 apply to price-based exclusionary conduct.