European Union competition law

European competition law promotes the maintenance of competition within the European Union by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies to ensure that they do not create cartels and monopolies that would damage the interests of society. With a history that traces back to the prohibitions on the restraint of trade, and influenced by the experience of the United States Sherman Act 1890 and the Clayton Act 1914, European competition law today derives mostly from articles 101 to 109 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, as well as a series of Regulations and Directives. Four main policy areas include:

European Union competition law

European competition law promotes the maintenance of competition within the European Union by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies to ensure that they do not create cartels and monopolies that would damage the interests of society. With a history that traces back to the prohibitions on the restraint of trade, and influenced by the experience of the United States Sherman Act 1890 and the Clayton Act 1914, European competition law today derives mostly from articles 101 to 109 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, as well as a series of Regulations and Directives. Four main policy areas include: