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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION Commission Notice on the definition of the relevant market for the purposes of Union competition law · European Union

(63) The Union Courts’ case law has consistently referred to ‘sufficiently homogeneous’ – as opposed to identical – conditions of competition as being the criterion for defining a relevant geographic market. See judgment of 14 February 1978, United Brands v Commission, C-27/76, EU:C:1978:22, paragraphs 11 and 44; judgment of 8 July 2003, Verband der freien Rohrwerke and Others v Commission, T-374/00, EU:T:2003:188, paragraph 141; judgment of 30 September 2003, Cableuropa and Others v Commission, T-346/02 and T-347/02 (joined cases), EU:T:2003:256, paragraph 115; judgment of 7 May 2009, NVV and Others v Commission, T-151/05, EU:T:2009:144, paragraph 52; judgment of 5 October 2020, HeidelbergCement and Schwenk Zement v Commission, T-380/17, EU:T:2020:471, paragraph 294.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.