COMMON ASPECTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION CLUSTER AND COMPETITION POLICIES

Competitiveness contributes significantly to the dynamic development of European prosperity. Thus the competition policy is the area of economy which determines the development of the European Union Member States. In the field of innovation and technology European Union focuses on supporting the overall competitiveness of European industry. New approach of competition policy focuses mainly on its standards such as antitrust, merger control and state aid control measures. Based on the comparative analysis of European Cluster policy and EU Competition policy mutual interaction, the object of the paper is to assess the impact of the EU Competition policy effects on the EU Cluster policy regarding the EU competitiveness enhancement in the international economics system. Technological advance, knowledge based production, innovation implemented into new technologies are the outputs of effective synergy how the EU cluster policy can be involved in the EU competition policy. Those are the tools leading to increasing economic growth, sustainable social and economic development and higher quality of life of European Communities inhabitants.