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| 3. | The purpose of this Notice is to provide guidance on how the Commission applies the concept of relevant market in its enforcement of Union competition law. Competition policy preserves well-functioning markets and addresses market failures, thereby contributing to the twin green and digital transitions and the resilience of the single market (6). It aims to ensure that markets remain competitive, open and dynamic. Accordingly, competition policy can contribute to preventing excessive dependency and increasing the resilience of the Union economy by enabling strong and diversified supply chains (7), and can complement the Union’s regulatory framework on environmental sustainability by taking into account sustainability factors to the extent relevant to the competition assessment, including as part of market definition. Against that background, the updated guidance provided in this Notice takes into account the significant developments of the past twenty years. These include digitalisation and new ways of offering goods and services, as well as the increasingly interconnected and globalised nature of commercial exchanges.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.