%0 Journal Article
%@ 2041-7764
%A  Nagy Csongor István
%D 2024
%F publicatio:34974
%J JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW AND PRACTICE
%N 5
%P 299-305
%T The doctrine of ancillary restrictions as a delimitation tool and an absorption principle: twin notions but not identical twins
%U http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/34974/
%V 15
%X Contrary to the general view, ‘ancillary restrictions’ designate two separate conceptions, which should be treated as separate doctrines. As a ‘delimitation tool’, ancillarity separates ‘naked’ and ‘ancillary’ restrictions based on ‘reasonable necessity’. As an ‘absorption principle’, ancillarity is a rule of thumb that screens out certain lawful agreements based on the idea that a lawful main transaction (or the legality of the main transaction) absorbs all objectively necessary (indispensable) restrictions.