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Athanase Popov

DG ENERGY (Luxembourg)

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Athanase Popov is a legal officer at the European Commission. He holds a PhD in European Union law from the Luxembourg University. Being a French and Bulgarian national with a Franco-English legal education, he has previous experience from various firms, law firms and organisations in France and Bulgaria and is also qualified as part of the "promotion Attali" at the Paris Bar school. His fields of interest and research areas cover competition law, EU procedural law, international arbitration and public international law.

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Athanase Popov The EU General Court annuls the Commission’s State aid decision on the basis that it lacked jurisdiction to implement relevant law in a situation where all relevant facts have taken place before Romania’s accession to the EU (Micula)

18 June 2019 177

The Micula case has been used by the opponents of investment treaty arbitration to argue that such arbitration circumvents and breaches EU State aid law. The Micula case was initially about the judicial review of the withdrawal of individual incentives granted to the investor and withdrawn by (...)

Athanase Popov The EU Court of Justice preliminarily determines that a Lithuanian aid scheme for the provision of public interest services in the electricity sector breaches State aid rules (Achema / Orlen Lietuva / Lifosa / VKEKK)

15 May 2019 222

The judgment of the Court of 15 May 2019 in case C-706/17, delivered upon a request for a preliminary ruling from the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania (“Achema”), replicates the analysis which was previously established in Association Vent de Colère!. The judgment in Achema thus follows (...)

Athanase Popov The EU General Court clarifies the obligations of the Commission following a State aid annulment decision (SNCM)

6 July 2017 101

The judgments of the General Court of the EU of 6 July 2017, delivered in the cases France v Commission and Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée (SNCM) v Commission européenne, confirm the settled case-law of the Union judicature regarding the criterion of the private investor in a market (...)

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Athanase Popov Transparency in EU Procurements: Disclosure Within Public Procurement and During Contract Execution, Kirsi-Maria HALONEN, Roberto CARANTA and Albert SANCHEZ-GRAELLS

February 2020 299

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

Athanase Popov Enforcing European Competition Law through Leniency Programmes in the Light of Fundamental Rights, with an Overview of the US Leniency Programme, Emma SALEMME

September 2019 289

Athanase Popov State Aid and the Energy Sector, Leigh HANCHER, Adrien de HAUTECLOCQUE and Francesco Maria SALERNO (dir.)

September 2018 475

Athanase Popov The EU Leniency Policy: Reconciling Effectiveness and Fairness, Baskaran BALASINGHAM

February 2018 270

Athanase Popov Abuse of Dominance in EU Competition Law. Emerging Trends, Pier Luigi PARCU, Giorgio MONTI and Marco BOTTA

November 2017 347

Athanase Popov La mutation des frontières dans l’espace européen de l’énergie

February 2017 343

Frédérique Berrod was formerly known for her work on the "systematics of community lawsuits" (F. Berrod, La systématique des voies de droit communautaires, Nouvelle bibliothèque de thèses, vol. 21, Paris, Dalloz, 2003). It was she who, together with Dominique Ritleng (D. Ritleng, Pour une (...)

Athanase Popov Capacity Mechanisms in the EU Energy Market. Law, Policy, and Economics.

November 2016 715

Ensuring an adequate, long-term energy supply is a paramount concern in Europe. EU member states now intervene by encouraging investment in generation capacity, offering an additional revenue stream for conventional power plants in addition to the existing, heavily subsidised investments in (...)

Athanase Popov Der Einfluss des unionsrechtlichen Beihilfenverbots auf das deutsche Steuerrecht

February 2016 876

Friederike Grube’s book, which is the result of her doctoral thesis, aims to shed light on recent developments in German tax law under the influence of EU law. The study opens with a reminder of the distinction between direct and indirect taxation. As far as indirect taxation is concerned, (...)

Athanase Popov Standardization under EU Competition Rules and US Antitrust Laws – The Rise and Limits of Self-Regulation

December 2014 1554

Standardization under EU Competition Rules and US Antitrust Laws is a comprehensive and detailed legal analysis of standard-setting procedure and the regulation of standard essential patents. It deals with the competition law aspects of competitors’ collaboration to create technical standards, (...)

Athanase Popov European Merger Remedies - Law and Policy

September 2014 505

As merger transactions become more complex, so do the remedies involved. This book seeks to identify and examine the most important aspects of merger remedies, which have emerged and evolved in the European Commission’s policy and practice over the past 20 years. The in-depth analysis of (...)

Athanase Popov Market Building through Antitrust

May 2014 812

Market Building through Antitrust investigates the role of antitrust policy in the building of competitive energy markets in Europe. By looking at the specific problem of long-term supply and access contracts in the electricity sector, the book questions the suitability of antitrust policy as (...)