Market Integration Clause Samples
Market Integration. (a) Strengthening of the linkages among farmers, private agro-business producers and markets that are necessary for a dynamic commercial agriculture and developing local farmers, processors and trader associations and modern cooperatives, through provision of technical assistance and training.
(b) Carrying out of market studies and analyses and dissemination of results, and provision of training to farmers, traders, processors and officials in marketing and management.
(c) Support for the development of quality specifications consistent with market opportunities and legal requirements of international markets, through provision of technical assistance and training.
(d) Strengthening of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ groups, associations and marketing cooperatives to enable small farmers to participate in agricultural markets, through provision of technical assistance and training.
Market Integration. Market integration remains an important goal in European competition law and will thus even in the future influence the treatment of vertical restraints. However, it is made clear in the Commission Guidelines that the market integration objective should be subordinate to the one of competition protection.126 In the list of black clauses, most space is left for market integration considerations. It is still almost impossible to conclude an agreement with absolute territorial protection which complies with the competition rules. As long as linguistic and legal barriers remain in the European Single Market, strong protection is essential to make it feasible for undertakings to participate in cross border trade through the Union. To penetrate new markets is, as discussed above, favourable to competition, but will also strengthen market integration. 124 Case 85/76 ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ v Commission. 125 Case 27/76 United Brands v Commission [1978] ECR 207. 126 Commission Guidelines on Vertical Restraints para. 7. The long list of black clauses is counterproductive both for competition and market integration. At any rate, it is clear that competition has not been given clear priority in the objective of market integration. If the list is not shortened, at the very least it should be made easier to obtain individual exemption when special market conditions so require.