Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/148068 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 3/16
Publisher: 
Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, Institute for European Integration, Hamburg
Abstract: 
The protection of a "system of undistorted competition" within the internal market is one of the core elements of EU law that institutionalizes economic integration. The addressees of the prohibitions regarding restraints of competition such as Articles 101 and 102 TFEU are "undertakings". Hence the question arises whether such undertakings must be located within the EU, whether at least their anticompetitive conduct must be completed within the EU or whether it is sufficient that the effects of restraints of competition are felt on the internal market. These problems have been discussed for many decades, but the ECJ has still not come to a fully satisfactory conclusion. This paper sets out the public international law ramifications, briefly describes the development in the US and analyzes the jurisprudence of the ECJ up to the recent Intel judgment of the General Court which is now, upon appeal, before the ECJ.
Subjects: 
competition law
antitrust law
extraterritorial application
international jurisdiction
public international law principles
territoriality principle
personality principle
jurisprudence
single economic entity doctrine
implementation doctrine
effects doctrine
conflicts of jurisdiction
positive comity
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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