إرشادات مقترحات البحث معلومات خط الزمن الفهارس الخرائط الصور الوثائق الأقسام

مقاتل من الصحراء

         



TITLE V

Common rules on competition, taxation and approximation of laws ( * )

( * ) Title introduced by Article G ( 17 ) TEU.

CHAPTER 1

RULES ON COMPETITION

Section 1

Rules applying to undertakings

Article 85

1. The following shall be prohibited as incompatible with the common market: all  agreements between undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings and  concerted practices which may affect trade between Member States and which have  as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within  the common market, and in particular those which:

a.

directly or indirectly fix purchase or selling prices or any other trading  conditions;

b.

limit or control production, markets, technical development, or investment;

c.

share markets or sources of supply;

d.

apply dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading  parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;

e.

make the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of  supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial  usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts.

2. Any agreements or decisions prohibited pursuant to this Article shall be  automatically void.

3. The provisions of paragraph 1 may, however, be declared inapplicable in the  case of:

any agreement or category of agreements between undertakings;
any decision or category of decisions by associations of undertakings;
any concerted practice or category of concerted practices;

which contributes to improving the production or distribution of goods or to  promoting technical or economic progress, while allowing consumers a fair share of  the resulting benefit, and which does not:

a.impose on the undertakings concerned restrictions which are not indispensable  to the attainment of these objectives;


1/1/1900