Bernard van de Walle de Ghelcke

September 2013 has seen the entry into force of the new Belgian Competition Act; The main innovation is the introduction of the Belgian Competition Authority, a single and independent administrative body, but with an internal functional separation between investigative and decision-making (...)

The profound financial and economic crisis that the European Union is currently going through, that neither internal market, competition regime, common policies, or Economic and Monetary Union rules could prevent, requires reflection on the EU pertinence of policies and means of action. The (...)

Ce Tendances revient sur le débat qu’a ravivé l’affaire Aer Lingus/Ryanair autour du traitement des participations minoritaires dans le contrôle des concentrations. La difficulté principale tient dans le point de savoir si, et dans quelle mesure, le droit des concentrations doit s’appliquer aux (...)

The Fifth annual conference of the Global Competition Law Centre, held in Brussels on 11-12 June 2009, was dedicated to the Commission’s review of EC Regulation 1/2003. These contributions are the summaries of six work groups: I) The directly applicable exception system and the direct (...)

In his introduction, Professor Blanche Sousi-Roubi (Professor at the University of Lyon 3, Director of the Institute of Law and Business Economics) gives a brief presentation of the rules involved and their applicability to these two sectors. In the first article, Bernard Van de Walle de (...)