restriction on competition [ discriminatory trading practice | distortion of competition | illegal trade practice | unfair competition | unfair trade practice | distortion of competition(GEMET) | discriminatory trade practices(UNBIS) | unfair competition(UNBIS) ]

merciless competition

noncompeting group in the labor market [ noncompeting groups ]

EU competition policy [ European Union competition policy | EU competition law(STW) ]

covenant in restraint of competition | non-competition clause | non-competition covenant | non-competition obligation | restraint on competition

consumer protection officer | policy manager | competition policy officer | entrepreneurship policy officer

Working group for the implementation of competition rules

non-compete agreement [ non-competition agreement | covenant not to compete ]

Working Party No. 1 on Competition and International Trade [ Working Party on Competition and International Trade ]

9. Stresses the need to ensure a level playing field for companies operating in the digital single market in order for them to be able to compete; calls, therefore, on the Commission to properly enforce EU competition rules in order to prevent excessive market concentration and abuse of dominant position, and to monitor competition with regard to bundled content and services;

This is because: (i) the combined entity would still remain below the market leader, GE; (ii) other market players remaining in the market for gas gensets post-transaction have a much larger market share than suggested by the Phase I data and continue to pose an effective competitive constraint; (iii) other sources of asymmetry in the market continue to exist, in particular differences in electrical efficiency as well as RD investments among the main competitors; (iv) the Parties are not close competitors; and (v) the specificity of the genset competition, which takes place on the basis of projects (as opposed to gensets), along with ...[+++] the heterogeneity of the projects and the customers hinder genset manufacturers’ ability to monitor each other’s behaviour on the gas genset market.

14. Stresses the need for developing synergies between competition and consumer protection policies, including creating a European form of collective redress for individual victims of competition law violations, based on the opt-in principle and taking into account the criteria laid down in Parliament's resolution of 26 March 2009, stipulating that compensation should be paid to the identified group of people or their nominee only for the damage actually suffered; calls on the Commission to consider the ways in which such a mechanism ...[+++] could be incorporated into existing national legal systems ;

14. Stresses the need for developing synergies between competition and consumer protection policies, including creating a European form of collective redress for individual victims of competition law violations, based on the criteria laid down in Parliament’s resolution of 26 March 2009, stipulating that compensation should be paid to the identified group of people or their nominee only for the damage actually suffered; calls on the Commission to consider the ways in which such a mechanism could be incorporated into existing national ...[+++] legal system;