ABSTRACT
Competition law is now taught and practised as a subject on its own, separately from the law of free movement, the subject of this book. However, the two things are conceptually, and sometimes practically, inseparable. The implementation of competition law is important to the actual realisation of free movement by individuals, companies, goods and services. The ideas behind it are important to the process of harmonisation, and to the vision of a single European market. It is therefore necessary to have some idea of what competition is about.
