Reframing self-regulation in european private Law

Increasingly, European companies in a variety of business sectors as well as professional groups are taking self- regulatory initiatives as a means of gaining competitive and protective leverage in a "meta-regulatory" environment. While these initiatives have obvious legal and economic advantages for the entities and ...

European merger control

do we need an efficiency defence?

During its first fifteen years, the EUs merger control system, unlike most others in the world, offered only minimal possibilities for taking efficiency gains into account as a mitigating factor that might offset the anti-competitive effects of a merger. This book examines the background to ...

The EC competition Law on technology licensing

This work provides a complete guide to EC technology licensing law from a competition law perspective. The focus is the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (TTBER), in force from May 2004, but this new law is put into context by explanation of the complexities of ...

EC public procurement

case Law and regulation

Public procurement represents a specialist yet important area of practice in the European and international business and commercial legal environment. This book offers an inclusive, coherent and practical analysis of the relevant law and jurisprudence, with the principal focus on the case law of the ...

EU competition Law

general principles

"EU Competition Law: General Principles" provides authoritative and comprehensive coverage of competition law in the European Union. It includes up-to-date and detailed analysis of core Treaty articles and case law on the fundamental principles affecting commercial agreements, abuse of dominant position and state involvement and ...

European corporate Law

Corporate lawyers in Europe are faced with tremendous challenges and opportunities resulting from a number of fast-paced developments in EU company law. Restrictions on the establishment of companies have been abolished. Legal practitioners need to catch up on the fundamentals of the corporate laws of ...

The boundaries of EC competition Law

The scope of article 81

This monograph addresses two problems surrounding the interpretation and application of Article 81 of the EC Treaty - what is competition and how does Article 81 ensure that competition is protected. After over 40 years of application and a period of modernisation, decentralisation, and reflection, it ...

Technology transfer and the new EU competition rules

intellectual property licensing after Modernisation

The new Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation (in force from May 1, 2004) signals a profound change in the nature of the regulatory framework for technology licensing under EU competition law. This book examines the new Regulation in detail, placing it in the wider context ...

EU Competition Law

procedures and remedies

Competition litigation is expected to increase dramatically in light of the application of the modernised competition law regime and new procedural rules. "EU Competition Law: Procedures and Remedies" provides essential practical reference on the enforcement of competition law by EU and national courts and competition ...

Vertical agreements in EC competition Law

This book analyzes the EC competition rules applicable to vertical agreements, including Regulation 2790/99 (the general block exemption applicable to vertical agreements), Regulation 1400/2002 (the motor vehicle block exemption) and also vertical agreements not covered by a block exemption. The book includes informal ...

Modernised EC Competition Law in international arbitration

The recent "modernisation" of EC competition law has heightened the need for international arbitration practitioners to accommodate EC competition law into their practice and has made it necessary for EC competition law practitioners to understand the role of arbitration as a central means for the ...

Unfair Competition Law

European Union and member States

Despite their differences, all 25 member States of the European Union agree that commercial activities should be controlled in the interests of market participants and that there must be rules to secure fairness. At the community level, there is a growing body of regulatory law ...

The evolution of european competition Law

whose regulation, wich competition?

INDEX: Foreword Part I: Introduction Part II: Strategic Competition Policies? US#EU Conflicts and Convergence Part III: Controlling Restrictions of Competition Part IV: Approaching Competition by Regulation Part V: Conclusion: The New Thinking.

Commercial agency, franchise, and distribution contracts

(PEL CAFDC)

The Study Group on a European Civil Code has taken upon itself the task of drafting common European principles for the most important aspects of the law of obligations and for certain parts of the law of property in movables which are especially relevant for ...

EU competition Law and regulation in the converging telecommunications, media and IT sectors

Of the major industries formerly characterized by a high degree of state monopoly control, telecommunications is proving to be increasingly susceptible to market failure. This book presents the most thoroughgoing model yet offered to ensure the emergence of a genuinely competitive electronic communications industry in ...

Aplicació del Dret de la Competència a Catalunya

òrgans administratius, òrgans judicials

ÍNDEX: 1. Introducció. 2. Inauguració. 3. La judicialització del dret de la competència i el nou paper dels òrgans administratius. 3. La dualitat Administració-òrgans judicials: qüestions pràctiques. 4. 2004 i perspectives per al dret de la competència. 5. Punt de vista de l'Administració. 6 ...

Il roulo del giudice di fronte alle decisioni amministrative per il funzionamento dei mercati

SOMMARIO: Presentazione. # Organizzazione mondiale del commercio: 1. Criteri di sindacato nella soluzione delle controversie dell#Organizzazione mondiale del commercio (M. Oesch). # Unione europea: 1. Diritto della concorrenza e ricorsi per annullamento nell#era della post- modernizzazione (D. Geradin, N. Petit). # 2. I poteri della Commissione ...

The architecture of european codes and contract Law

The ongoing debate on the harmonisation of European contract law has metamorphosed into an important recognition: that none of the existing national systems of contract law, even the most 'modern,' have been able to keep pace with the extensive and radical changes in the world ...

El traslado de domicilio social de la Sociedad Anónima Europea

Las operaciones de transferencia intracomunitaria de domicilio social han encontrado tradicionalmente numerosos obstáculos (legales o fiscales) que las han malogrado a la postre, creando serios obstáculos a la libertad de establecimiento comunitario y, en definitiva, a la consolidación del Mercado Interior. En este poco favorecedor ...

Criminalization of competition Law enforcement

economic and legal implications for the EU member States

This timely book brings together contributions from prominent scholars and practitioners to the ongoing debate on the criminalization of competition law enforcement. Recognizing that existing remedies and sanctions may be insufficient to deter breaches of competition law, several EU Member States have followed the US ...