Eu Competition Law And Policy

Scholarly Paper aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Jura Europa und VlkerRIPR einseitig bedruckt Note 10 A Leeds Metropolitan UniversityVeranstaltung EU Policy an... » 

Scholarly Paper aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Jura Europa und VlkerRIPR einseitig bedruckt Note 10 A Leeds Metropolitan UniversityVeranstaltung EU Policy and Business Sprache Englisch Abstract Competitionbetween companies governments and states within and across the global tradingareas e.g. Nafta Mercosur EEA EU has become a vital part in this new worldof less political and economical boundaries. Competition law therefore has toregulate the market powers of those who participate in the global exchange ofgoods and services. There are now at least 80 systems of competition law inthe world in all continents and in all types of economies many others are incontemplation.... see Whish Richard Competition Law. It has asubstantial impact upon the outline of agreements. With Articles 81 and 82 ofthe EEC Treaty EU jurisprudence and the legislative bodies of the Member StatesMMS have a basis to work on this topic of immense importance. Ignoring thecompetition rules not seldom lead to large fines being levied by the EuropeanCommission in July 1991 Tetra Pak was fined because of competition lawinfringement with a record sum of lb 52mn See Singleton S. Introduction ofCompetition Law page 3. The aim of this essay is to briefly outline the scopeof EUs competition policy and laws and to give an insight into both theAgreements of Minor Importance de Minimis and the impact of Competition Lawon the topic of parallel grey imports. The latter is examined on a case studygiven. The basis of this essay consists of secondary literature taken frombooks treaties articles notices or webpages. A full bibliography can befound at the end of the main part. «