Resale price maintenance: a comparative study between The European Union and Malaysian Competition Laws / Mohd Safri Mohammed Na’aim

Mohammed Na’aim, Mohd Safri (2018) Resale price maintenance: a comparative study between The European Union and Malaysian Competition Laws / Mohd Safri Mohammed Na’aim. Journal of Academia, 6 (1). pp. 67-78. ISSN 2289-6368

Abstract

Resale Price Maintenance (hereinafter ‘RPM’) can be defined as the practice whereby a manufacturer and a distributor agree that the former will sell the latter’s products at certain prices. RPM may take a variety of forms including fixed, minimum, maximum, or recommended resale prices. In general, practice of RPM may restrict the distributors’ freedom of setting their prices at the downstream level henceforth attracting the application of competition law. The paper aims to analyse the legal status of RPM in the context of competition law in European Union and Malaysia including the ways RPM is able to restrict competition. This paper contains a detailed analysis of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter ‘TFEU’), the Competition Act 2010 (hereinafter ‘CA 2010’), related regulations, guidelines, case law, and scholarly writing in this area. The paper concludes that not all forms of RPM are prohibited under these two jurisdictions. Some of them are deemed illegal or anti-competitive because they are likely to harm competition and some of them may be permitted subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions.

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Item Type: Article
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Mohammed Na’aim, Mohd Safri
safri7246@puncakalam.uitm.edu.my
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory. Demography > Competition. Production. Wealth
K Law > K Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence > Comparative law. International uniform Law > Competition, Unfair
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan > Kuala Pilah Campus
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Academia
UiTM Journal Collections: UiTM Journal > Journal of Academia (JoA)
ISSN: 2289-6368
Volume: 6
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 67-78
Keywords: Competition, resale price maintenance, distribution, fixed, minimum
Date: 2018
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/29658
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