44Among these rules, the purpose of Article 102 TFEU more specifically is, according to settled case-law, to prevent conduct of a undertaking in a dominant position that has the effect, to the detriment of consumers, of hindering, through recourse to means or resources different from those governing normal competition, maintenance of the degree of competition existing in the market or the growth of that competition (see, to that effect, judgments of 13 February 1979, Hoffmann-La Roche v Commission, 85/76, EU:C:1979:36, paragraph 91; of 27 March 2012, Post Danmark, C‑209/10, EU:C:2012:172, paragraph 24; and of 30 January 2020, Generics (UK) and Others, C‑307/18, EU:C:2020:52, paragraph 148 and the case-law cited). To that effect, as the Court has held, that provision seeks to sanction not only practices likely to cause direct harm to consumers but also those which cause them harm indirectly by undermining an effective structure of competition (see, to that effect, inter alia, judgments of 15 March 2007, British Airways v Commission, C‑95/04 P, EU:C:2007:166, paragraphs 106 and 107, and of 17 February 2011, TeliaSonera, C‑52/09, EU:C:2011:83, paragraph 24).
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