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| 20. | Eighth, the Commission is not obliged to reach a definitive conclusion on the precise scope of the market where the outcome of the Commission’s assessment would not change under various plausible market definitions. The Commission may leave the market definition open (37) both in cases where competition concerns arise regardless of the market definition applied (38) and in cases where no competition concerns arise regardless of the market definition applied (39). When it leaves the market definition open, the Commission usually carries out the competitive assessment for all plausible alternative market definitions, though the depth of its competitive analysis may vary between the alternative markets assessed (40).

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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.