The first investigation of Intel ended in 1993, after two years, without any charges of using unfair business methods to undermine competition.

The case made against this plan is that it would encourage national governments to favour their own farmers, undermining fair competition within the single market.

Government regulators said such practices had threatened to undermine competition.

Sometimes they say price controls on physicians and hospitals wouldn't undermine competition because controls would apply only during a transition period.

Other measures such as nitrate quotas would badly undermine competition.

Still, in its suit, the Justice Department concluded that the merger would undermine competition nationally and in nearly all the 100 local markets it measured.

The commission, which is charged with determining whether proposed takeovers undermine industrial competition, has recently been criticized for its slow-moving approach.

These conditions have blatantly undermined competition and the principles of solidarity.

The growth of illegal work seriously undermines economic competition.

European coordination must be focused on areas where genuine European value added exists or can develop, and where it will not undermine competition.