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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION Guidelines for national courts on how to estimate the share of overcharge which was passed on to the indirect purchaser · European Union
(18) Umbrella pricing refers to a situation in which ‘undertakings that are not themselves party to a cartel, benefiting from the protection of the cartel's practices (operating “under the cartel's umbrella”, so to speak), knowingly or unknowingly set their own prices higher than they would otherwise have been able to under competitive conditions’, Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 30 January 2014 in case C-557/12 (Kone) ECLI:EU:C:2014:45, paragraph 2.
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