The Treatment of Vertical Agreements in EC Competition Law Miscellaneous Essay
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EC competition policy is one of the original policy areas of the 1957 EC Treaty and has a number of objectives, some of which are common to all competition systems and some specific to the EC. A key function of the EC competition rules, as interpreted by the ECJ, has been to assist in the establishment of a single Community-wide market, (for example, by preventing companies from dividing the market into national sales territories).