Open AccessCOOPERATIVES AND COMPETITION LAW
Author(s) -
Miguel Sousa Ferro,
Andrzej Paulo,
Carolina Galdino Ramalho
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cooperativismo e economía social/cooperativismo e economía social
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2660-6348
pISSN - 1130-2682
DOI - 10.35869/ces.v0i41.1487
Subject(s) - competition law , competition (biology) , portuguese , european union , subject (documents) , law and economics , business , political science , economics , international trade , industrial organization , law , market economy , computer science , monopoly , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , library science , biology
The present paper aims at providing an overview of the extent to which cooperatives are subject to the rules of Competition Law. Focusing primarily on EU and Portuguese Competition Law, the paper begins by tackling the legal theoretical framework. It then provides examples of how Competition Law has been applied to cooperatives in the past, in a few jurisdictions of the European Union.