EU competition policy: key to a fair Single Market
In-Depth Analysis
02-06-2014
The aim of EU competition policy is to safeguard the Single Market by ensuring that enterprises can compete on equal terms. Competition policy encompasses a wide range of areas: antitrust and cartels, merger examination, state aid, the liberalisation of markets and international cooperation. Recent developments include the private antitrust damages actions directive, the recommendation on collective redress and complex modernisation of the state aid rules. Finding effective deterrents to cartels as well as the appropriate use of settlements, commitments and leniency programmes, remain a challenge.
In-Depth Analysis
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- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- competition
- control of restrictive practices
- control of State aid
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- economic analysis
- economic conditions
- economic growth
- economic recession
- ECONOMICS
- EU competition policy
- EU institutions and European civil service
- European Commission
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- impact study
- liberalisation of the market
- merger control
- powers of the institutions (EU)
- restriction on competition
- single market
- TRADE
- trade policy