Atsisakymo bendradarbiauti bylose taikytinų sąlygų susisteminimas ir jų ryšio su skirtingomis atsisakymo bendradarbiauti formomis nustatymas, manytina, yra esminė prielaida siekiant nubrėžti pagrįstą ribą tarp dominuojančio ūkio subjekto teisėto atsisakymo bendradarbiauti ir piktnaudžiavimo dominuojančia padėtimi. Atitinkamai magistro baigiamaje darbe, priešingai paplitusiai kazuistinei atsisakymo bendradarbiauti atvejų analizei, apibendrintai įvardijamos ir nagrinėjamos sąlygos, reikšmingos sprendžiant ar atsisakymas bendradarbiauti konkrečiu atveju laikytinas piktnaudžiavimu dominuojančia padėtimi. Magistro baigiamajame darbe patvirtinama hipotezė, kad visose atsisakymo bendradarbiauti bylose, įskaitant esminių išteklių ir atsisakymo suteikti intelektinės nuosavybės teisių licenciją atvejus, išpildytinos dvi kertinės – prašomo tiekti ištekliaus būtinumo ir konkurencijos pašalinimo – sąlygos. Daroma išvada, kad tik patenkinus šias dvi sąlygas galima tolesnė atsisakymo bendradarbiauti situacijos analizė sprendžiant, ar konkrečiu atveju ūkio subjekto atsisakymas bendradarbiauti laikytinas piktnaudžiavimu dominuojančia padėtimi. Darbe taip pat prieinama prie išvados, kad konkurencijos teisėje nėra konceptualaus skirtumo tarp esminių išteklių, atsisakymo suteikti intelektinės nuosavybės teisių licenciją ir kitų atsisakymo bendradarbiauti bylų tiek įvardijant atitinkamas bylas kaip atstovaujančias vienai iš atitinkamų doktrinų, tiek taikomų sąlygų atžvilgiu. Magistro baigiamąjį... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The essential premise when drawing a line between the legitimate refusal to deal by a dominant undertaking and its abuse of a dominant position is to file the conditions to be satisfied in refusal to deal cases and to understand their relations with different forms of refusal to deal. Therefore contrary to the common incidental analysis of refusal to deal cases, in this master thesis the conditions which are significant when deciding if refusal to deal in a specific case is to be considered abuse of a dominant position are identified and analyzed as a whole. In a master thesis the hypothesis is confirmed that in all refusal to deal cases, including essential facilities and refusal to licence intellectual property rights cases, two crucial conditions are to be satisfied – indispensability of an input and elimination of competition. The conclusion is drawn that only after satisfying these two conditions further analysis of a refusal to deal situation shall be carried on in order to decide if a refusal to deal by an undertaking is to be considered an abuse of a dominant position. The conclusion also drawn is that there is no conceptual distinction between essential facilities, refusal to licence intellectual property rights and other refusal to deal cases when attributing them to one of the respective doctrines and when identifying the conditions to be satisfied. Master thesis consists of two parts. First part analyses the concept of refusal to deal cases, different forms which... [to full text]

Access to big data under the "refusal to supply" case-law of the Court of Justice of the EU Abstract This thesis deals with the topic of access to the so-called big data from the perspective of EU competition law. The thesis deals with the question whether and if so, to what extent it is possible to use the so-called "refusal to supply" case-law created by the Court of Justice of the EU to gain access to big data held by a dominant undertaking. The thesis finds that, under certain conditions, it is possible for all necessary steps to be fulfilled to allow one undertaking to request access from a dominant undertaking to big data under the control of that undertaking. This thesis therefore firstly discusses what factors affect the so-called online platforms, which can often find themselves in the position of dominant undertakings in terms of access to big data. The thesis analyses the effects of the so-called network effects, the impact of data analysis on their efficiency and the issue of the so-called multi-sided markets in connection with the position of online platforms. Subsequently, an assessment of the individual steps which, in summary, lead to the classification of the behavior of a dominant undertaking as an abuse of its dominant position by refusing access to big data is conducted. From the point...