"We're trying to protect competition throughout the drug industry."

There are also concerns, similar to elsewhere, of consumer interests being ignored in the interest of protecting competition.

Requiring the company to share that technical information, industry executives say, could protect competition - if effectively carried out and enforced.

That is because, as the Supreme Court has put it, the antitrust laws were enacted to protect "competition, not competitors."

This creates the Agency's two primary missions: protecting competition and protecting consumers.

It's been running roughshod over the principles of fair play and the laws protecting competition on the merits.

This is also an area where we can take more firm action as part of the policy for protecting competition and consumers.

A reduction in expenditure is the only argument used for undermining the institutions which are combating discrimination, regulating the media and protecting competition.

That is not good policy as it does not protect competition.

As for the specific question that Mr Lage asked, we are not trying to establish a strategy based on the logic of protecting competition.