ANTI-COMPETITIVE AGREEMENTS. FORMS AND IMPACT ON THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT ON THE MARKET

LASCOV Victor, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

MAXIM Ion, Competition Council, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

TIUHTII Constanța, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

Abstract:
Anti-competitive agreements are a form of collaboration between companies, aiming to reduce existing competitive pressures on the market that lead economic operators to innovate and improve their offers in terms of asking price and quality of offered goods and services that result in harming the consumers’ interests. This practice can take various forms and effects as alliances, anti-competitive arrangements, monopolistic agreements, cartel, and others.  The paper contains an analysis of the forms of anti-competitive agreements, their impact on the market relations and the form of their regulation. The article 101 TFEU contains the main regulation providing for the interdiction and sanctioning of anti-competitive agreements at the European level.

Keywords: anti-competitive agreements, market competition, market relationship

JEL Classification: K2, K21, L4, L41

Volume: 73, Issue: 3

Pages: 110 - 131

Publication date: October, 2021

DOI: 10.56043/reveco-2021-0026

Download the article: http://economice.ulbsibiu.ro/revista.economica/archive/73305lascov&maxim&tihutii.pdf

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