Tying under EC Competition Law: The Tetra Pak II Case
This paper discusses tying, a practice which, when used by large firms, has in the past been treated as anti-competitive and therefore undesirable. In the European Community, tying has been assessed in only a few court cases. The so called Tetra Pak II case was one such case. There, the court held that the defendant, Tetra Pak, was using tying in order to obtain market power by excluding its compe