Restrictive Practices of Commercial Competition

(A comparative analysis in light of the provisions of Iraq's Competition and Monopoly Prevention Act No. 14 of 2010)

Abstract

This study was aimed at identifying the most important restrictive practices of commercial competition reported by the Iraqi legislator in the Competition and Monopoly Prevention Act No. 14 of 2010. At a time when competition is the strength of a free economy and the basis on which business and economic enterprises are built Every merchant has the right to engage in business in a legitimate way to attract as many customers as possible. To this end, it uses all necessary means to achieve its legitimate objective of competition; Some may go beyond the limits of legitimate trading practices by the conduct of collusion, fraud and abuse of their economic power to kill the spirit of competition in the market and to harm competitors. and, as a result, to protect the public interest, it the practices restricted in the article. (10) of the Act, which would result in the prevention of monopoly and thus the demise of unlawful competition.