market-sharing agreement

Market partitioning group

(b) Where the change in applicant or owner results from a merger, or from the reorganization or division of a legal entity, a Contracting Party may require that the request be accompanied by a copy of a document, which document originates from a competent authority and evidences the merger, or the reorganization or division of the legal entity, and any attribution of rights involved, such as a copy of an extract from a register of commerce.

The Governing Body may, from time to time, review the levels of payment with a view to achieving fair and equitable sharing of benefits, and it may also assess, within a period of five years from the entry into force of this Treaty, whether the mandatory payment requirement in the MTA shall apply also in cases where such commercialized products are available without restriction to others for further research and breeding.

they contemplate joint purchase of MDNS hardware and/or software, which would amount to sharing markets or sources of supply.

Within a competitive market, the Community framework allowed Member States to put in place mechanisms to share the costs of providing universal service as defined at Community level.

or where groups are used or managed in such a way as to give one or more participating undertakings the means of acquiring or reinforcing a position of significant market power on the relevant market, or if these groups result in market sharing.

In order not to affect the continuity of trade flows, the arrangements for allocating and administering the first tranche of the 2004 quotas should accordingly be adopted before the start of the quota year.

Where quota allocation takes account of traditional trade flows, one portion of the quota shall be reserved for traditional importers or exporters while the other shall be set aside for other importers or exporters.

The term 'assets` as used here means specific assets which in themselves could constitute a business (e.g. a subsidiary, a division of a company or, in some cases, brands or licences) to which a market turnover can be clearly attributed.

If the agreement is not reciprocal, the risk of market partitioning is less pronounced.

That hardcore restriction relates to market partitioning by territory or by customer.

the allocation of markets or customers.

serve as a means of market sharing;

The possible competition risks are mainly reduced intra-brand competition and market partitioning, which may in particular facilitate price discrimination.

Efficiencies that only benefit the parties or cost savings that are caused by output reduction or market allocation cannot be taken into account.

Under the heading of "market partitioning" come agreements whose main element is that the buyer is restricted in where he either sources or resells a particular product.

A specific concern related to distribution arrangements between competitors which are active in different geographic markets is that they can lead to or be an instrument of market partitioning.

This information exchange could in certain cases influence the competitive behaviour of the undertakings concerned, and could easily be used by the parties for collusive practices, such as market sharing (89).

If competitors agree to distribute their products on a reciprocal basis there is a possibility in certain cases that the agreements have as their object or effect the partitioning of markets between the parties or that they lead to collusion.

This notice concerns secret cartels between two or more competitors aimed at fixing prices, production or sales quotas, sharing markets including bid-rigging or restricting imports or exports.

Purchasing agreements only come under Article 81(1) by their nature if the cooperation does not truly concern joint buying, but serves as a tool to engage in a disguised cartel, i.e. otherwise prohibited price fixing, output limitation or market allocation.

Most common types of production agreements can be assumed to cause some economic benefits in the form of economies of scale or scope or better production technologies unless they are an instrument for price fixing, output restriction or market and customer allocation.

a single branding group, a limited distribution group, a resale price maintenance group and a market partitioning group.

they contemplate joint purchase of MDNS hardware and/or software, which would amount to sharing markets or sources of supply.

As discussed above, the question of indispensability is especially important for those agreements involving price fixing or the allocation of markets.

The sharing of markets or customers reduces the choice available to customers and therefore also leads to higher prices or reduced output.

Environmental agreements come under Article 81(1) by their nature if the cooperation does not truly concern environmental objectives, but serves as a tool to engage in a disguised cartel, i.e. otherwise prohibited price fixing, output limitation or market allocation, or if the cooperation is used as a means amongst other parts of a broader restrictive agreement which aims at excluding actual or potential competitors.

In order not to affect the continuity of trade flows, the arrangements for allocating and administering the second tranche of the 2004 quotas should accordingly be adopted before May 2004.

This is the case for agreements that have as their object a restriction of competition by means of price fixing, output limitation or sharing of markets or customers.

This variable forms together with (25 11 1), retail traders and (25 11 3) final consumers an exhaustive breakdown of turnover from trading activities of purchase and resale (18 13 0).

This variable forms together with (25 11 1), retail traders and (25 11 2) professional users an exhaustive breakdown of turnover from trading activities of purchase and resale (18 13 0).

This variable forms together with (25 11 2), professional users and (25 11 3) final consumers an exhaustive breakdown of turnover from trading activities of purchase and resale (18 13 0).

Price segmentation between developed country markets and the poorest developing country markets is necessary to ensure that the poorest developing countries are supplied with essential pharmaceutical products at heavily reduced prices.

Within a competitive market, the Community framework allowed Member States to put in place mechanisms to share the costs of providing universal service as defined at Community level.

Whereas the disparities between national legislations on contracts relating to the purchase of the right to use one or more immovable properties on a timeshare basis are likely to create barriers to the proper operation of the internal market and distortions of competition and lead to the compartmentalization of national markets;

Any national scheme pursuant to Directive 2002/22/EC, serving to share the net cost of the provision of universal service obligations shall be based on objective, transparent and non-discriminatory criteria and shall be consistent with the principle of proportionality and of least market distortion.

In principle certain severe anti-competitive restraints relating to the fixing of prices charged to third parties, limitation of output or sales, and allocation of markets or customers should be excluded from the benefit of the block exemption established by this Regulation irrespective of the market share of the undertakings concerned.