This book is intended to serve as a first acquaintance with competition law. It aims to reach a broad range of readers: students, teachers in further and higher education, officials and practising lawyers who are not usually faced with competition law issues in their working lives. This second edition has been fully updated in the light of the latest developments, and covers both EU and UK competition law along with an introduction to the EU rules on State Aid. It provides insight into the combined system of EU and UK competition law, providing a broad range of examples for the three main subjects - the prohibition of cartels, the prohibition of the abuse of a position of dominance and the supervision of concentrations (ie mergers and acquisitions). Those examples are drawn from European and UK practice. These greatly enhance the exposition of the general principles, taking into account recent legislative and judicial developments.

Ever since international economic relations have been established law has been developed to shape them in a satisfactory manner. Conversely, changes in the law have sometimes preceded, and thus fostered, international economic intercourse. The spectacular growth of the international economy over the past decades has called for a more intensive role for the law, and probably also a different kind of law. This has led to a panoply of new legal instruments and procedures as well as a resuscitation of the traditional and established forms. In December 2002, the Europa Instituut of Leiden University convened a seminar to discuss the various responses to the challenges posed by globalisation in different fields of economic activity and legal practice. The theme 'Globalisation and Jurisdiction' was reflected upon both by scholars and practitioners. Their presentations are presented in this book in a more formal and extensive format. Some additional topics have been included to provide an even more extensive treatment of the theme. In this book, the legal developments in some selected sectors which display particularly interesting features, such as international securities and banking and the internet are addressed. For every sector the question can be asked: what are the challenges posed by globalisation and how has the law been reacting to them? An overview of these developments provides valuable input for the second purpose of this book, the academic debate on jurisdiction and globalisation. Which problems are encountered? To what extent have traditional concepts of jurisdiction accommodated the requirements of a global economy? To what extent have these traditional concepts been adapted andnew ones developed to solve these problems?

The continued implementation of the competition rules of the EC Treaty and the provisions of the third package of aviation liberalization measures of 1 January 1993 remain of great importance to the Community's aviation industry. 1994 has seen important activity on access to Community air routes (such as the Orly airport cases), ground handling, state aids and code sharing. These subjects, and others, are examined in the Association's annual conference for 1994, with a round table session on access to air routes in particular. In addition, in view of the conference's location in Amsterdam, there will be a particular Dutch perspective on certain current issues.