The Transformation of EU Competition Law: Next Generation Issues - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9403500964 ISBN 13: 9789403500966

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer, 2023

Synopsis

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The controversy surrounding EU competition rules has grown in recent years. Pressure from such phenomena as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the digital economy have fostered a fragmentation in the interpretation of the rules at both national and EU levels. This volume takes stock of the current situation, assessing the successes and failures of the prevailing ‘modernisation’ policy and setting forth a range of potential legal adaptations designed to offer the right responses to a rapidly changing world.</span>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> The book’s contributions are based on papers delivered at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Global Competition Law Center (GCLC) at the College of Europe in Bruges. The authors include prominent practitioners and academics, members of the European Commission, representatives of national competition authorities, and judges from both EU and national courts. They address such salient issues as the following:</span>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </span>

• <p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">free competition versus ‘regulated competition’ as alternative or complementary models;</span>

• <p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">new methods for the identification of consumer harm and benefits;</span>

• <p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">sui generis competition law regimes for specific sectors;</span>

• <p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">State aid enforcement and crisis management; and</span>

• <p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">the green and digital objectives and their legal and political implications.</span>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> Taken together, the essays provide extensive treatment of the EU Courts’ jurisprudence and the literature in the field. For practitioners, policymakers and academics working with competition law, the book will clearly explain the new competencies of the Commission, raise awareness of the latest case law on the analysis of effects, and ensure a forward-looking approach to competition law enforcement in Europe.</span>

About this title

About the Author

Dr Adina Claici is a principal at the Brattle Group in Brussels, a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and Barcelona School of Economics, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) of the College of Europe. Dr Assimakis Komninos is a Partner at White & Case LLP, a Visiting Professor at Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II) – LLM AWArDS, Visiting Research Fellow at University College London, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) of the College of Europe. Denis Waelbroeck is a partner at Ashurst LLP, a Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) of the College of Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9403500964
• ISBN 13: 9789403500966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Claici Adina