Notion of Undertaking in EU Competition Law — Interactive ECJ Citation Graph

Traces how the Court of Justice defined “every entity engaged in an economic activity, regardless of its legal status and the way in which it is financed” and its limits — solidarity-based social security, exercise of public powers, severable state activities, professional associations, and the single-economic-unit / liability branch (parental presumption from ICI/AEG via Stora/Akzo/Elf/Alliance One/Goldman Sachs, agency in Viho/CEES/CEPSA, succession in ETI/Parker/Skanska, downward liability in Sumal and its limits in MOL, facilitators in AC-Treuhand/ICAP). Earliest case on top, latest on bottom — ordered by exact judgment date. Arrows run from a later case to the earlier case it cites on the undertaking point. Click any case to bold all directly connected cases; use “Full chain” to bold the whole ancestry/descendancy.

Sources: Court of Justice — InfoCuria (curia.europa.eu) and EUR-Lex (eur-lex.europa.eu). Every node links to both its EUR-Lex judgment and its InfoCuria file. Edge labels are the citing paragraphs on the undertaking notion.

judgments span citation edges (undertaking point only) vertical order = exact judgment date click = bold connected