87Before examining the merits of the grounds of appeal relating to the existence of a restriction of competition by object, it should be noted that, unlike the circumstances underlying the cases in which the Court has been called upon to rule on the legal characterisation, in the light of Article 101 TFEU, of agreements under which a manufacturer of originator medicines compensated a manufacturer of generic medicines economically in return for the latter’s refraining from entering the market, in particular the cases which gave rise to the judgments of 30 January 2020, Generics (UK) and Others (C‑307/18, EU:C:2020:52), and of 25 March 2021, Lundbeck v Commission (C‑591/16 P, EU:C:2021:243), and unlike the other agreements concluded by Servier that formed the subject matter of the decision at issue, the Krka settlement and licence agreements did not provide for any payment from the manufacturer of originator medicines to the manufacturer of generic medicines. On the contrary, the Krka licence agreement provided for payments from the manufacturer of generic medicines to the manufacturer of originator medicines.
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