18As regards the concept of restriction of competition ‘by object’, the Court has held that it must be interpreted restrictively and can be applied only to certain types of coordination between undertakings which reveal a sufficient degree of harm to competition that it may be found that there is no need to examine their effects (see, to that effect, judgment in CB v Commission, C‑67/13 P, EU:C:2014:2204, paragraph 58). That case-law arises from the fact that certain types of coordination between undertakings can be regarded, by their very nature, as being harmful to the proper functioning of normal competition (judgment in CB v Commission, C‑67/13 P, EU:C:2014:2204, paragraph 50 and the case-law cited).
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