Central European Countries’ Competition Law Practice Contribution to the Development of EU Competition Law
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2022
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Central European Academic Publishing
Abstract
The case law of the Central European EU Member States has made important contributions to the development of
EU competition law through preliminary rulings. First, restriction of competition ‘by object’ is an open category
since the European Court of Justice’s judgment in the Hungarian insurance cartel: the competition authority or
the court may also declare market conduct as anti-competitive by object if it is not yet characterized as having
an anti-competitive object. Second, preliminary ruling questions referred from Central European countries have
given the EU Court of Justice an opportunity to clarify the relationship between national and EU competition law.