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Leveraging abuse is an infringement of Article 102 TFEU committed by an undertaking active in several markets and dominant in one of them, which uses its position on the dominated market to distort competition on the non-dominated horizontally- or vertically-related market.Although leveraging abuse can consist in any of the actions described in Article 102 TFEU, the most significant and often met variations are tying and refusal to provide downstream operators with access to necessary input.
In order to be considered leveraging abuse, the conduct of the undertaking with dominant position must satisfy the following criteria:
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-the company commits the abuse on a non-dominated market that is related to and connected with dominated market.
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Responsible: Freie Universität Berlin |
