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COOPERATIVES AND COMPETITION LAW

The present paper aims at providing an overview of the extent to which cooperatives are subject to the rules of Competition Law. Focusing primarily on EU and Portuguese Competition Law, the paper begins by tackling the legal theoretical framework. It then provides examples of how Competition Law has been applied to cooperatives in the past, in a few jurisdictions of the European Union.