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ABUSE OF A DOMINANT POSITION - Advocatennet

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II. Exclusionary abuses: analytical framework (4)<br />

- Commission’s Discussion Paper -<br />

• A two-prong legality test<br />

– Foreclosure: market distorting effect (points 58-59 COM discussion paper)<br />

• Capability to foreclose (nature or form of conduct),<br />

• Incidence, i.e. market coverage of conduct, network effects<br />

• Degree of market power – very similar to Delimitis in Art. 81-1<br />

– Consumer harm: no defenses (points 77-79 COM discussion paper)<br />

• Objective justifications: objective necessity, meeting competition<br />

• Efficiencies: balancing anti-competitive and pro-competitive effects<br />

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