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Vertical Distribution Agreements: journal article

What Should Be Considered a Restriction by Object?

Christian Bergqvist

European Competition and Regulatory Law Review, Volume 7 (2023), Issue 2, Page 84 - 98

While consensus positions continue to emerge regarding what to accept as restrictions by object in horizontal arrangements, little consideration has been given to verticals – presumably because enforcers lost interest several decades ago. But the winds might be changing, and the fact remains that case law has identified a group of vertical restrictions as detrimental to the free market as horizontal hardcore arrangements. In this article, an attempt to capture what to accept as vertical object restrictions will be made, providing guidance for enforcers' renewed interest in the matter. Keywords: Vertical restraints; distribution agreements; by object; hardcore; Article 101


Brewing Control: the Case of Super Bock journal article

Seppe Maes, Caroline Buts, Marc Jegers

European Competition and Regulatory Law Review, Volume 7 (2023), Issue 3, Page 189 - 192

Annotation on the Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 29 June 2023 in Case C-211/22 Super Bock Bebidas SA and Others v Autoridade da Concorrência In its judgment of 29 June 2023, following six questions referred for a preliminary ruling, the Court of Justice of the EU provided clarity in dealing with a vertical case involving resale price maintenance (RPM).1 A topic that had already undergone considerable evolution in existing case law, from a phenomenon that was considered as restrictive by object, following among others the Binon case, to a much more nuanced view in which the Court noted that the agreements should be assessed in their appropriate legal and economic context where the restrictive effect should be established first.



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