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Antitrust or Competition laws legislate against trade practices which undermine competitiveness or are considered to be unfair. The term antitrust derives from the US law which was originally formulated to combat business trusts - now commonly known as cartels.

Most antitrust activity can be classified in the following areas:

• Bid rigging
• Monopolization and oligopolization
• Price fixing
• Tying
• Vendor lock-in

Most free-market countries have an antitrust law of one form or another. The European UnionFor other uses, see EU (disambiguation). The European Union or EU is a supranational organisation of 25 European states. It was established with that name by the Treaty on European Union (commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty) in 1992 but many aspects o also has its own competition lawCompetition law is one of the areas of authority of the European Union. It comprises three main policy areas: Antitrust: control of collusion and other anti-competitive behaviour which has an effect on the EU (or, since 1994, the European Economic Area)..

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