Judgment_paragraph 100 · Autoridade da Concorrência and Others v Ministério Público (C-331/21)

100Those collusive practices, which are capable of falling within the category of restrictions by object, include market-sharing agreements. Such agreements constitute particularly serious breaches of the competition rules (see, to that effect, judgments of 5 December 2013, Solvay Solexis v Commission, C‑449/11 P, EU:C:2013:802, paragraph 82, and of 4 September 2014, YKK and Others v Commission, C‑408/12 P, EU:C:2014:2153, paragraph 26), since they have, in themselves, an object restrictive of competition and fall within a category of agreements expressly prohibited by Article 101(1) TFEU, and such an object cannot be justified by an analysis of the economic context of the anticompetitive conduct concerned (see, to that effect, judgment of 20 January 2016, Toshiba Corporation v Commission (C‑373/14 P, EU:C:2016:26, paragraph 28 and the case-law cited).