This chapter is part of the PLC multi-jurisdictional guide to competition.

On 14 December 2010 the European Commission (Commission) published its revised Guidelines on the applicability of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) to horizontal co-operation agreements (OJ 2011 C11/01) (EU Guidelines). This chapter covers the underlying approach; Focus area A: information exchange; Focus area B: co-marketing and co-selling; other areas of interest; and key areas of convergence and divergence.