106In that respect, the Court notes that, according to the case-law of the Court of Justice, the essential legal criterion for ascertaining whether an agreement involves a restriction of competition ‘by object’ is the finding that such an agreement reveals in itself a sufficient degree of harm to competition for it to be considered that it is not necessary to assess its effects (judgments of 26 November 2015, Maxima Latvija, C‑345/14, EU:C:2015:784, paragraph 20, and of 2 April 2020, Budapest Bank and Others, C‑228/18, EU:C:2020:265, paragraph 37).
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