Predatory pricing can be captured under section 79, the price maintenance provision that deals with these vertical pricing arrangements you're talking about.

Since the Green Paper was published in 1997, the development of the institution of vertical distribution restraints has gone through various phases, including most recently the adoption of new Regulation 2790 on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices.

Since the Green Paper was published in 1997, the development of the institution of vertical distribution restraints has gone through various phases, including most recently the adoption of new Regulation 2790 on the application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices.

The remarkable reduction in the number of new antitrust cases can be attributed to the new block exemption on vertical restraints which has drastically reduced the need for notification of this type of agreement.

35. Emphasises that this agreement lays down basic principles for an effective competition policy through the establishment of uniform minimum standards for the prevention of anti-competitive practices, such as the formation of cartels, the abuse of a dominant position in the market, the prevention of vertical and horizontal restrictions on competition, as well as the establishment of independent competition authorities in all WTO member states to enforce minimum competition law standards; steps must be taken to ensure that a situation does not arise in which companies would have to comply with differing national interpretations of comp ...[+++]etition law;

In its Article 9-request of 22.10.1997 the Bundeskartellamt has argued that WestLB would use its influence in the competing undertakings TUI, HL and LTU/LTT in order to coordinate the business policies of these companies in the sense of a vertically integrated undertaking.