UEIL Competition Committee
Profile
The Competition Policy Committee aims to provide constructive input to the EU institutions to ensure the development of efficient and balanced EU competition policies that reflect the needs of both business and consumers. Competition policy is essential to the success of the single market. By ensuring a level playing field for business, effective EU competition policy serves to generate wealth and employment, protects the interests of consumers and promotes economic efficiency by fostering innovation.
UEIL is concerned with securing supplies of raw materials to member companies. In the lubricants industry, base oil suppliers are often at the same time lubricant manufacturers and hence competitors to the independents. This dual function can jeopardise free competition, particularly at times of base oil shortages. UEIL is confident that an adequate EC legislative and regulatory framework will give the independent lubricant manufacturers the opportunity to meet the challenge of competition with major oil companies on an equal footing.
Current Issues
Key issues include: modernisation of EU competition policy and enforcement; restrictive practices and abuses of dominant positions; mergers and acquisitions or joint ventures and public undertakings and state aid. UEIL is particularly interested in the up-coming review by the EC Commission of EC Regulation 1400/202 on the application of the EC anti-trust rules to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices in the motor vehicle sector, a Regulation of great importance to the UEIL membership.
Competition Committee Documents
| Date | Title | File size |
| Lubricant purchases by motor vehicle dealers within the European Union | 24
KB |