Competition as a Phenomenon of Public Life, an Object of Legal Support and Protection

Competition is a diverse phenomenon and exists in various spheres of public life. Competition is characterized by economic, social and legal content. Its economic content consists in the activities of economic entities that comply with certain market laws, due to the existing market structure and aimed at achieving the best results for them. The social content of competition lies in the objective desire of each individual to achieve certain advantages, to obtain more comfortable living conditions. The legal content of competition is determined by the ideas that have been formed in society and have received normative consolidation about the possibility, admissibility or, conversely, inadmissibility, prohibition of certain forms and types of market behavior for business entities. Based on the constitutionally fixed provision on the need to support competition, and also taking into account that effective market competition is possible only if favorable conditions for it are created, it should be noted that the subject of competition law as a system of norms should not include only relations for the protection of competition, but also regulatory relations for ensuring the process of competition, since the purpose of protection is to restore the normal state of certain relations. In this regard, within the framework of competition law, it is advisable to talk about an independent institution for ensuring and developing competition. This institution should include both general provisions aimed at supporting competition, and provisions relating to the features of ensuring and developing competition in certain sectors of the economy. 

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