DG Comp posts EU Competition Policy Booklet
DG Comp posted this highly readable guide to competition and competition law in the EU.
I am delighted to introduce this consumers guide to European competition policy. Open competition in Europe is important. It helps to lower prices and increases choice for European consumers. This guide explains how the European Commission, together with national competition authorities, aims to ensure that there is free and fair competition in the European Union. It explains how they:Note how consumer choice gets top billing right next to price. And even though we usually don’t give design advice on this blog: please, please, please get some new stock photographs! I must have seen these random, energetic, happy people enjoying the fruits of competition while shaking hands a dozen times by now. It only takes one trip to flickr to cure that malaise.
- take action against business practices which restrict competition;
- examine mergers to see if they reduce competition;
- open up competition in areas previously controlled by State-run monopolies;
- vet financial support given to companies by EU national governments;
- cooperate with other competition authorities around the world.
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