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The Treaty of Rome imposed on the member-countries of the Common Market a task of unprecedented complexity. It decreed that the Six should unify their economies behind a protectionist tariff wall under conditions which if they are not to be described as planification on a European scale must be regarded as wiping out the last vestiges of laissez-faire.
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Swann, D., and McLachlan, D. L., Competition Policy of the European Community (London, 1967).
Walsh, A. E., and Paxton, J.,Competition Policy: European and International Trends and Practices (London, 1975).
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Paxton, J. (1976). The Rules of Competition. In: The Developing Common Market. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02758-3_10
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