Sentence examples for application of the competition rules from inspiring English sources
In his words:Back in 1981, when Rupert Murdoch was allowed to take [the Times and Sunday Times] over without the then Thatcher government referring the takeover to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, many of us argued against that and said it was unwise simply in the application of the competition rules pertaining at the time.
Consistent application of the competition rules to interchange fees would reduce transaction costs for consumers and thus improve the functioning of the internal market.
Retrieved Accessed on 5th April 2014, from http://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/oecdhealthdata.htm (2013).lBased on data from CBS (Statistics Netherlands), http://statline.cbs.nl/statweb/dome/ LA=nl.mFor a more detailed description of the application of competition rules in the healthcare sector, see the following book chapter by Sauter [ 84].
The recent Omnibus Regulation (EU) No 2017/2393 has made changes to the legal framework for the application of competition rules to the agreements and practices of farmers and their associations.
Through these proposals, the Commission seeks to promote a broader application of EC competition rules, which will become the only rules applicable to conduct that may have an effect on trade, and a more decentralized application of such rules through a growing intervention of the national competition authorities and the national courts.
As will be seen, the current system of allocation of tasks between EC and national levels in the field of competition law provides for a concurrent application of EC competition rules and national competition laws to anti-competitive conduct that may have an effect on trade between Member States, as well as for a fairly centralized system of implementation of EC competition rules.
The competition rules prohibit the use of staged animal models.
Its function as public service offset may be taken into account when considering whether the measure in question is "shielded" from application of the EC Treaty competition rules pursuant to Article 86(2) EC.
The issue should be not the application of the rule but the rule itself.
"There are several EU countries which are seriously thinking that now is not the time for a doctrinaire application of the state aid rules," said Duncan Gillespie, competition lawyer at DLA Piper.
Perhaps the real issue is not the application of the rules in this case but the inconsistency of the application of those rules.
