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T1 Competition Compliance: Limits to Competition Policy Harmonisation in EU Enlargement
A1 H. Peter Møllgaard
A1 Jochen Lorentzen
A2 Jochen Lorentzen
LA English
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1866916505
AB The paper analyses the extent of and the reasons behind limits to competition policy harmonisation in EU enlargement. Our focus is on vertical restraints. First, we compare the relevant legal regimes towards vertical agreements in the EU and in Eastern Europe. We then describe competition policy practice in all ten EU candidate countries and point out differences both between East and West and among the candidates. Finally, we examine a large database of inter-firm agreements in Eastern Europe's car industry and use insights from case studies of subcontracting to highlight instances of non-conformity between (1) East European competition law and practice and (2) EU rules and East European competition law enforcement. The conclusion recommends how to improve competition policy practice, and thus compliance, post-enlargement.antitrust law; EU enlargement; empirical studies
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