Problems Related to Determining of a Single Economic Entity under Competition Law

• Authors: Moisejevas Raimundas , Urbonas Danielius
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article explores the problems related to the determination of a single economic unit under competition law. The first part of the article addresses the concept of a single economic entity. It is presumed that companies belonging to a group are separate undertakings, but under certain circumstances the group might constitute a single economic entity. The second part refers to the analysis of the concept of ‘control’, which is the main criterion describing the relationship inside a group of companies. The third part refers to the analysis of the cases when de jure separate undertakings are recognized as a single economic entity. When a company exercises decisive influence over another company, they form a single economic entity and, hence, are part of the same undertaking. Decisive influence is the most important criterion for recognizing that de jure separate undertakings constitute a single economic unit. Finally, the fourth part refers to problems concerning the presumption of the decisive influence. It is presumed that a parent company exercises a decisive influence over a subsidiary where it holds 100 percent of capital. Thus, separate companies are recognized as a single economic unit, if 100 percent of a company’s capital is owned by the controlling entity.

Keywords

EN

competition law; concept of the control; decisive influence; one economic unit; parent company; single economic entity; subsidiary; undertaking

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 10(16)
• Pages: 107-126

Dates

published

2017-12-31

Contributors

author

Moisejevas Raimundas

author

Urbonas Danielius

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Identifiers

ISSN

1689-9024

DOI

10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2017.10.16.5