extraterritorial application of EU competition law

During globalization era and amalgamation of cultural, economic, political and social areas pertain to countries, the connection between people of the world and their countries is becoming vaster and also closer. Such proximity, particularly, in economic areas may cause collision, opposition and conflict of laws of the states. The laws which their application has been knotted to countries’ interests. Occasionally such interests stand beyond the borders of a country. Applying national rules to the beyond border matters faces many obstacles. Apart from conflict of jurisdictions, states’ sovereignty is one of the obstacles which hinder application of foreign law upon another country. On the other hand, rules such as competition rules which has been knotted to public and economic order of the countries, enjoy such importance which if been violated beyond their borders they wouldn’t bear the issue.