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Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 19 April 2018

MEO – Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia SA v Autoridade da Concorrência

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal da Concorrência, Regulação e Supervisão

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Competition — Abuse of dominant position — Subparagraph (c) of the second paragraph of Article 102 TFEU — Concept of ‘competitive disadvantage’ — Discriminatory prices on the downstream market — Cooperative for the management of rights relating to copyright — Royalty payable by domestic entities which provide a paid television signal transmission service and television content

Case C-525/16

Documents in the Case

Document

Date

Name of the parties

Subject-matter

Curia

EUR-Lex

Autres Liens

Judgment (OJ)

25/05/2018

Meo - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia

Competition
- Dominant position

Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2018:270

19/04/2018

Meo - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia

Competition
- Dominant position

Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2018:270

19/04/2018

Meo - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia

Competition
- Dominant position

Application (OJ)

16/12/2016

Meo - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia

Competition
- Dominant position

Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2017:1020

20/12/2017

Meo - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia

Competition
- Dominant position

Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.02 Dominant position
      4.08.02.04 Abuse of a dominant position
        4.08.02.04.02 Examples of abuse

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

TFEU, Article 102 -L1 : paragraph 23
TFEU, Article 102 -L2LC : paragraphs 1, 13, 20 - 25, 27 - 30, 37
Regulation 1/2003 -A03P1 : paragraph 3
Court of Justice - Judgment C -95/04 -N143 : paragraph 24
Court of Justice - Judgment C -95/04 -N144 : paragraph 25
Court of Justice - Judgment C -95/04 -N145 : paragraph 27
Court of Justice - Judgment C -23/14 -N73 : paragraph 29
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N139 : paragraph 31

Operative part

Interprets : TFEU, Article 102 -L2LC

Opinion

TFEU, Article 102 : points 1, 33, 42, 52, 59, 70, 93, 103
TFEU, Article 102 -L2LC : points 2, 21, 24, 28, 29, 32, 34, 41, 44, 56, 66, 67, 74, 76, 81, 83 - 85, 87 - 89, 92, 94, 96, 101, 105, 115
Decision 91/299 : point 109
Secondary Legislation - Document published in the OJ C series- 31997Y1209(01) : point 53
Regulation 1/2003 -A03P1 : point 5
Court of Justice - Judgment C -27/76 -N65 : point 53
Court of Justice - Judgment C -85/76 -N38 : point 53
Court of Justice - Judgment C -18/93 -N43 : point 79
Court of Justice - Judgment C -18/93 -N44 : point 79
Court of Justice - Judgment C -18/93 -N45 : point 79
General Court - Judgment T -229/94 : point 78
General Court - Judgment T -229/94 -N93 : point 78
Court of Justice - Order C -436/97 : point 78
General Court - Judgment T -228/97 -N64 : point 57
Court of Justice - Judgment C -163/99 -N46 : point 79
Court of Justice - Judgment C -163/99 -N66 : point 79
Court of Justice - Opinion C -95/04 -N104 : point 69
Court of Justice - Opinion C -95/04 -N105 : point 69
Court of Justice - Judgment C -95/04 -N143 : point 74
Court of Justice - Judgment C -95/04 -N144 : point 85
Court of Justice - Judgment C -95/04 -N145 : points 86, 100
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N169 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N170 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N171 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N172 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N173 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N174 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N175 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N176 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N177 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N178 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N179 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N180 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N181 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N182 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N183 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N184 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N185 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N186 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N187 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N188 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N189 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N190 : point 57
General Court - Judgment T -301/04 -N194 : point 89
Court of Justice - Judgment C -52/07 : points 80, 82
General Court - Judgment T -423/07 -N53 : point 113
Court of Justice - Judgment C -280/08 -N170 : point 53
Court of Justice - Judgment C -52/09 -N23 : point 53
Court of Justice - Judgment C -52/09 -N79 : point 53
Court of Justice - Opinion C -413/14 -N41 : point 62
Court of Justice - Opinion C -413/14 -N73 : point 93
Court of Justice - Judgment C -23/14 -N73 : point 100
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N133 : point 70
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N134 : point 70
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N135 : point 70
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N136 : point 70
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N137 : point 70
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N138 : points 70, 92
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N139 : points 70, 92
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N140 : points 70, 92
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N141 : points 70, 92
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N142 : point 70
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N143 : point 70
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N144 : point 70
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N145 : point 70
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N146 : point 70
Court of Justice - Judgment C -413/14 -N147 : point 70

Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

13/10/2016

Date of the Opinion

20/12/2017

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

19/04/2018

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 200 from 11.06.2018, p.7

Application: OJ C 14 from 16.01.2017, p.20

Name of the parties

Meo - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia

Notes on Academic Writings

Idot, Laurence: Abus d'exploitation et prix discriminatoires, Europe 2018 Juin Comm. nº 6 p.23-24 (FR)
Balthasar-Wach, Agnes ; Wollmann, Hanno: EUGH: Preisliche Diskriminierungen ohne Wettbewerbsnachteil sind erlaubt, Ecolex 2018 p.746-747 (DE)
Göckler, Till: Auswirkungen einer Preisdiskriminierung auf die Wettbewerbsposition des Diskriminierten, Neue Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht 2018 p.416-419 (DE)
Hemler, Caroline: Wettbewerbsrecht: Wettbewerbsverzerrung bei preislicher Diskriminierung zwischen Handelspartnern auf dem nachgelagerten Markt durch marktbeherrschendes Unternehmen - Anmerkung von Rechtsanwältin Dr. Caroline Hemler, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 2018 p.541-545 (DE)
Safron, Johannes: Zum Begriff der Wettbewerbsbenachteiligung bei Diskriminierungen unter Artikel 102 AEUV, ÖZK aktuell : Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kartell- und Wettbewerbsrecht 2018 p.128-135 (DE)
Decocq, Georges: L'établissement d'un "désavantage dans la concurence" produit par une disrimination tarifaire requiert une analyse des effets réels ou potentiels de celle-ci sur la situation concurrentielle de l'entreprise discriminée, Revue de jurisprudence commerciale 2018 p.384-392 (FR)
O'Donoghue, Robert: The Quiet Death of Secondary-Line Discrimination as an Abuse of Dominance: Case C-525/16 MEO, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2018 Vol. 9 nº 7 p.443-445 (EN)
Parmentier, Hugues: Prix discriminatoires et abus de position dominante, Revue Lamy de la Concurrence : droit, économie, régulation 2018 nº 76 p.23-27 (FR)
Horstkotte, Christian ; Wingerter, Eugen: Preisdiskriminierung durch marktbeherrschendes Unternehmen, IWRZ – Zeitschrift für internationales Wirtschaftsrecht 2018 N°6 p.270 (DE)
Graef, Inge: Grenzen aan discriminatie als misbruik van machtspositie, S.E.W. : Tijdschrift voor Europees en economisch recht 2018 n° 66 p.541-546 (NL)
Van Damme, Eric ; Sauter, Wolf: Kan prijsdifferentiatie mededingings-beperkend zijn? Zaak C-525/16 (MEO), Markt & Mededinging 2018 n°5 p.212-218 (NL)
Kiss, Katalin: A hátrányos versenyhelyzet fogalma az Európai Unió Bíróságának C-525/16. sz. ügyben hozott ítéletének tükrében, Versenytükör 2019 1. szám p.91-96 (HU)
Bosco, David: XII. Ententes, abus de position dominante et concentrations - Cour de justice, 2e ch., 19 avril 2018, MEO – Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia SA c/ Autoridade da Concorrência, aff. C-525/16, ECLI:EU:C:2018:270, Jurisprudence de la CJUE 2018. Décisions et commentaires (Ed. Bruylant - Bruxelles) 2019, p. 604-606 (FR)
Horvath, Reka ; Rousseva, Ekaterina ; Peeperkorn, Luc: The Preliminary Ruling in MEO: Closing the Circle of Article 102 TFEU, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2020, Vol. 11, nº 1-2, p. 35-46 (EN)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Tribunal da Concorrência, Regulação e Supervisão - Portugal

Subject-matter

Competition
- Dominant position

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

Deuxième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Prechal

Advocate General

Wahl

Language(s) of the Case

Portuguese

Language(s) of the Opinion

French