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Every year, top-level market regulators, academics and legal
practitioners attend the Annual Competition Workshop organised at
the European University Institute in Florence. The speakers are
invited to discuss a particular set of critical issues in the field
of competition law and policy. The entire content of the
proceedings - both the oral discussions and the written
contributions - are published in the European Competition Law
Annual series. This is the fourteenth in the series, reproducing
the debate which in 2009 examined the evaluation of evidence and
its judicial review in competition cases. The issues discussed
included, among others, the burden of proof, the standard of proof
and the standard of review with respect to antitrust infringement
decisions and merger decisions, both at the level of the EU and at
the national level in a number of Member States. In 2009, the
Workshop participants were: Rafael Allendesalazar Kelyn Bacon Judge
Gerald Barling Simon Bishop Judge Joachim Bornkamm Judge Michael
Boudin Jochen Burrichter Dennis Carlton Fernando Castillo de la
Torre Justin Coombs Lorenzo Coppi Claus-Dieter Ehlermann John
Fingleton Ian Forrester Judge Nicholas Forwood Eric
Gippini-Fournier Barry Hawk Alberto Heimler Per Hellstroem Pieter
Kalbfleisch Robert Kwinter Bruno Lasserre Philip Lowe Mel Marquis
Damien Neven Judge Aindrias O Caoimh Luis Ortiz Blanco John Ratliff
J. Thomas Rosch Heike Schweitzer Mario Siragusa Jacques Steenbergen
James Venit Judge Nils Wahl Judge Vaughn Walker
This book, co-written by a team of European competition law
specialists, offers critical perspectives on the whole range of
issues in EC competition law. The book has two distinctive
features: the first is that unlike similar works which present the
law from either an enforcement agency or practitioner perspective
in a fairly conventional manner, this work offers fresh, critical
reflections on the state of the law. The second is that the authors
are young academics, practitioners and administrators who have
worked in the relevant fields and who are relatively new "voices"
in the competition law literature. Drawn from diverse jurisdictions
and professional backgrounds the authors bring a distinctively
"European" feel (for instance not drawing exclusively on English
language literature), and manage to introduce debates that have
been taking place in the non-English language world, thereby
assisting a more comprehensive dialogue in this field. The
diversity in their professional backgrounds means that each chapter
adopts a different perspective, with some chapters focusing on
practical solutions to problems, and others exploring more general
theoretical questions. The textbook-like structure places the
issues in their appropriate contexts and ensures that readers see
how the discussion in each chapter links with the body of law as a
whole. The book is aimed at academic lawyers and practitioners,
complementing existing textbooks and allowing the reader to extend
his or her understanding of the subject and provide a quick source
of reference to the main doctrinal debates on the subject, and
offer fresh perspectives on the topics covered. The impact of EC
competition law beyond Europe also means that this book will appeal
to lawyers in the US, Australia, Canada and beyond.
This is the thirteenth in a series on EU Competition Law and Policy
produced under the auspices of the Robert Schuman Centre of the
European University Institute in Florence. The volume contains the
written contributions of numerous competition policy experts,
together with the transcripts of a roundtable debate which examined
the subject of "settlements" between enforcers of competition law
and defendant companies in cartel cases and in other types of
antitrust cases. The Workshop participants included: -- senior
judges from major jurisdictions (the European Union, Germany and
the United States); -- senior enforcement officials and policy
makers from the European Commission, from the national competition
authorities of certain EU Member States and from the US Department
of Justice and the US Federal Trade Commission; and -- renowned
international international academics, legal practitioners and
professional economists. In an intense, intimate environment, this
group of experts debated a number of legal and economic issues
pertaining to two broad lines of discussion: 1) settlements and
plea agreements in cartel cases, including their links with
leniency programs and with private enforcement; and 2) settlements
in "commitment" cases decided under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003
and under comparable procedures of national law.
This is the twelfth in a series on EU Competition Law and Policy
produced by the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University
Institute in Florence. The volume reproduces the written
contributions and transcripts in connection with a roundtable
debate which examined the EU's enforcement policy as regards the
abuse of a dominant position under Article 82 EC. The workshop
participants included: senior enforcement officials and policy
makers from the European Commission, from the national competition
authorities of certain EU Member States and from the US Department
of Justice and Federal Trade Commission; and renowned international
academics, legal practitioners and professional economists. In an
intense, intimate environment, this group of experts debated a
number of legal and economic issues structured according to three
broad lines of discussion: 1) comparisons of the concept of
monopolization under Section 2 of the Sherman Act with that of
abuse of dominance under Article 82 EC; 2) a reformed approach to
exclusionary unilateral conduct; and 3) exploitative unilateral
conduct and related remedies.
This is the eleventh in the series on EU competition law and policy
produced by the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University
Institute in Florence. The volume reproduces the materials from a
roundtable debate which examined the enforcement of the prohibition
on cartels. The workshop participants senior representatives of the
Commission and of the national competition authorities of some EC
Member States, renowned international academics, and legal
practitioners discussed the economic and legal issues that arise in
this particular area, including the unearthing of cartels the
evidence, the institutional framework, and the tools of
enforcement.
This is the tenth in a series of volumes based on the annual
workshops on EU Competition Law and Policy held at the Robert
Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence.
The volume reproduces the materials of the roundtable debate which
examined the interaction between competition law and intellectual
property law. The workshop participants - a group of senior
representatives of the Commission and the national competition
authorities of some EC Member States, reknowned international
academics and legal practitioners - discussed the economic and
legal issues that arise in this particular area of application of
the EC competition rules, under the following headings: 1) whether
the characteristics of intellectual property products/markets
justify special treatment under the competition rules; 2) a
critical assessment of the Block Exemption Regulation and
corresponding Guidelines recently adopted in this area of EC
competition law enforcement; 3) the specific enforcement issues
that arise in relation to patent pools and collecting societies;
and 4) specific problems related to IP in the domains of merger
control and application of Article 82 EC.
The European Competition Law Annual 2004 is ninth in a series of
volumes following the annual workshops on EU Competition Law and
Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University
Institute in Florence. The volume reproduces the materials of the
roundtable debate that took place at the ninth edition of the
workshop (11-12 June 2004), which examined the relationship between
competition law and the regulation of (liberal) professions. The
(liberal) professions and the rules governing their functioning
have become of interest for EC competition law enforcement since
the early nineties, making the object of a series of Commission
decisions and judgments of the European courts. The subject has
gained in importance in the perspective of the recent
decentralisation of EC antitrust enforcement. The regulation of
(liberal) professions is also a matter of increasing concern from
the perspective of freedom of services in the internal market. The
workshop participants - a group of senior representatives of the
Commission and the national competition authorities of some Member
States, reknown international academics and legal practitioners -
discussed the economic, legal and political/institutional issues
that arise in the relationship between competition law and the
regulation of (liberal) professions.
The European Competition Law Annual 2002 is the seventh in a series
of volumes following the annual workshops on EU Competition Law and
Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University
in Florence. The volume reproduces the materials of the roundtable
debate that took place at the seventh Workshop.
The European Competition Law Annual 1999 is the fourth in a series
of volumes including the materials of the annual Workshops on EU
Competition Law and Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the
European University in Florence. The present volume contains the
contributions and commentaries of a group of senior EU
policy-makers, renowned academics and international legal experts
on the subject of State Aid control - a unique and complex feature
of EU competition policy, usually little explored and understood.
The contributors concentrated on the aspects of EU State Aid policy
that were most contentions and challenging at the time of the
fourth edition of the EUI Competition Workshop (June 1999), as
following: a) the economic justifications for and effects of State
Aids, b) specific problems arising in the control of State Aids in
the banking sector, and c) the possibilities for a more
decentralised control of State Aids in the EU.
This volume of essays contains contributions by a group of
specialists in the area of competition law,including heads of the
world's major competition and antitrust enforcement authorities,
renowned scholars and private practitioners. The focus of the
volume is the objectives of competition policy of the European
Union and other major jurisdictions, the prospects of multilateral
competition code, and the relationship between objectives and
implementation issues. This is the second in a series of volumes
intended to provide an up-to-date commentary on new developments
and trends, the first of which was published in 1997.
The European Competition Law Annual 2001 is the sixth in a series
of volumes following the annual workshops on EU Competition Law and
Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University
in Florence. The volume reproduces the materials of the roundtable
debate that took place at the sixth edition of the Workshop (1-2
June 2001),which examined the conditions for an effective private
enforcement of EC antitrust rules. The application of EC antitrust
rules in the context of private litigation before national courts
and arbitration tribunals is becoming a highly topical subject
against the background of the on-going debate about the
decentralisation of EC antitrust enforcement. The participants - a
group of senior representatives of the Commission, national judges,
arbitrators, renowned academics and international legal experts in
the field of antitrust - discussed in particular the following
aspects: a) the availability and effectiveness of substantive
remedies in the enforcement of EC antitrust rules at the EU level
in general and in four major EU jurisdictions in particular
(England, France, Italy and Germany); b) the procedural issues
arising in the enforcement of EC antitrust rules by national courts
in four EU jurisdictions (England, France, Italy and Germany) and
at the EU level in general; c) the problems arising in the
application of Article 81(3) EC by arbitration tribunals. In
addition to these issues, the participants also discussed whether
the public enforcement of EC antitrust rules could be rendered more
efffective by introducing sanctions applicable to the individuals
responsible for their violation.
The 1998 Volume on the regulation of communications markets is the
third in a successful series of European Competition Law
Annuals,founded upon open dialogue between technical experts,
market analysts and legal practitioners. Gathering together
academic papers and edited transcripts of expert discussions, it
offers readers a lively and informed insight into the topical
debate of whether governments, or the European Union, should
intervene to prevent powerful firms from abusing their control of
critical 'gateways' between consumers and communication information
services. The Volume examines the technical and market evolutions
that have allowed the development of single communications
networks, which offer consumers a variety of telephone,
audio-visual and computer data services. In an era of market
liberalisation, the editors and contributors ask how private
ownership of such communications networks may be reconciled with
the need to ensure consumers easy access to the services that
underpin our, so-called, 'information society'. Table of Contents
Introduction - Claus D. Ehlermann Biographical Notes on the
Participants Panel One: Regulating Access to Bottlenecks 1 Panel
Discussion 2 Working Papers - Fod Barnes, Bernard Amory and
Alexandre Verheyden, Jens Arnbak, Henry Ergas, Herbert Hovenkamp,
Gunter Knieps, Daniel Rubinfield and Robert Majur, Joachim Scherer,
Herbert Hungerer, James Venit Panel Two: Agreements, Integration
and Structural Remedies 1 Panel Discussion 2 Working Papers - Mark
Armstrong, Donald Baker, Eleanor Fox, Barry Hawk, Colin Long,
Michael Reynolds, Alexander Schaub, Klaus-Dieter Scheurle, Mario
Siragusa Panel Three: Institutions and Competence 1 Panel
Discussion 2 Working Papers - Ulrich Immenga, Stuart Brotman, Ian
Forrester, Frederic Jenny, Bruno Lasserre, Santiago Martinez Lage
and Helmut Brokelmann, James Rill, Mary Jean Fell, Richard Park and
Sarah Bauers, Giuseppe Tesauro, Robert Verrue, Peter Waters, David
Stewart and Andrew Simpson, Dieter Wolf, Dimitri Ypsilanti
Afterword - Louisa Gosling
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