On 27 March 2023, the European Commission published a Call for Evidence in order to gather feedback from stakeholders that may set the elements to draft and adopt future Guidelines on the application of Article 102 TFEU to exclusionary conduct. This document conveys the preliminary views of the Asociación Española para la Defensa de la Competencia – AEDC on this process, both as a whole and in relation to particular issues that competition practitioners face in their daily application of Article 102 TFEU.

These comments have been drafted by Rafael Baena, Fernando Díez Estella, Daniel Escoda, Diego García Adánez, Alfredo Gómez, Eduardo Gómez de la Cruz, María López Ridruejo, Borja Martínez Corral, Yolanda Martínez Mata, Irene Moreno-Tapia and Victoria Rivas.