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Buyer cartel or legitimate buying group? How to stay on the right ...


Buyer cartel or legitimate buying group? How to stay on the right ...

High profile enforcement against buyer cartels, involving raids and multi-million fines, are a reminder that the risk of antitrust fines is ...

Buyer Cartels Versus Buying Groups: Legal Distinctions, Competitve ...

Buyer cartels are per se illegal but buying groups are subject to the "rule of reason" in antitrust law; yet, the two types of activity are hard to distinguish ...

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Distinguishing a buyer cartel from a legitimate buying group is easy at a conceptual level. ... Buyer Cartels Should Remain Per Se Illegal. The weakness of ...

Getting Ready For a Group Discount – The European Commission's ...

Even if a joint purchasing arrangement does not constitute a buyer cartel, it may still restrict competition. However, joint purchasing arrangements are less ...

Chapter 7: Competition policy for buyer cartels, buying groups and ...

Unregulated buyer cartels should be unlawful under all circumstances despite the potential negative effects of seller power on buyers.

Walking a thin line: cooperation and collusion - Stibbe

However, these buying arrangements must stay on the right side of the line between legitimate cooperation and anticompetitive collusion.

Beware the risks of joint purchasing - contrast

Buyer cartels and purchasing arrangements are thus two different things, but members of a purchasing arrangement should take care that they do not form a buyer ...

UK buying groups get some pointers in the new Horizontal Guidance

Given that the objective of both a purchasing cartel and a buying group is to reduce a purchase price, the anti-competitive nature of that ...

Horizontal Guidelines on purchasing agreements: - Competition Policy

concrete and relevant, real-life examples of joint purchasing and buyer cartels from ... District Court of Rotterdam held that a large group of real-estate ...

purchasing power and buyers' cartels | oecd

Indeed, it is sometimes argued that purchasing power be pro-competitive, particularly in the context of merger control. The appropriate level of enforcement ...

Cartels: What you need to know - a guide for business - ACCC

Agreements solely between related corporate bodies will not fall within the cartel offences or civil prohibitions. Buying groups. There is an exception to the ...

GPOs – Not Just for the Healthcare Industry - Mayer Brown

It is widely acknowledged that joint purchasing arrangements or commonly used Group Purchasing ... buyers' cartel. A buyers' cartel is an agreement among ...

Vertical Relations in Cartel Theory - Universiteit van Amsterdam

Because now the buyer group has no minimum purchase requirement, the deviating ... ers on the competitive effects of buyer groups, and what the appropriate ...

Buyer Power And Merger Analysis - The Need For Different Metrics

It is better long term strategy for a buyer to have its own set of semi-captive suppliers than to be in a market where it must compete with other buyers. The ...

BUYER CARTELS: A THEORETICAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK

This paper contains a theoretical analysis cartel formation by buyers in thin markets where with a small number of buyers and sellers. Limiting.

Competitor Collaboration Guidelines - Competition Bureau Canada

... cartel agreements, while at the same time removing the threat of ... 5 Joint purchasing agreements and buying groups. A joint purchasing ...

"Good" and "Bad" buyer collaboration - spotting the difference

By contrast, in a buyer cartel, suppliers usually unilaterally negotiate with different buyers unaware that each negotiation has effectively ...

Group Boycotts | Federal Trade Commission

An agreement among competitors not to do business with targeted individuals or businesses may be an illegal boycott, especially if the group of competitors ...

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING - UNSW Law Journal

The Senate has announced an inquiry. III ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ALL CARTELS. The fundamental change is to downgrade collaborative conduct of groups of buyers or ...

Buying Groups, Buying Groups, Buying Groups! What's all the buzz ...

Step 5: Add the entire Buying Group to a marketing campaign, and engage with them appropriately by Role. For example, your Economic Buyer wants ...