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Document 11997E082

    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)
    Part Three: Community policies
    Title VI: Common rules on competition, taxation and approximation of laws
    Chapter 1: Rules on competition
    Section 1: Rules applying to undertakings
    Article 82
    Article 86 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version)
    Article 86 - EEC Treaty

    Legal status of the document In force

    ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/treaty/tec_1997/art_82/oj

    11997E082

    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version) - Part Three: Community policies - Title VI: Common rules on competition, taxation and approximation of laws - Chapter 1: Rules on competition - Section 1: Rules applying to undertakings - Article 82 - Article 86 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version) - Article 86 - EEC Treaty

    Official Journal C 340 , 10/11/1997 P. 0209 - Consolidated version
    Official Journal C 224 , 31/08/1992 P. 0029 - Consolidated version
    (EEC Treaty - no official publication available)


    Treaty establishing the European Community (Amsterdam consolidated version)

    Article 82

    Any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position within the common market or in a substantial part of it shall be prohibited as incompatible with the common market insofar as it may affect trade between Member States.

    Such abuse may, in particular, consist in:

    (a) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions;

    (b) limiting production, markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers;

    (c) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;

    (d) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts.

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