Mr. Sakkers has been with the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission since 1997. During his first 3½ years in DG Competition he worked in the so-called Merger Task Force. At the beginning of 2001 he shifted to cartel enforcement, currently as Head of Unit within Directorate F (Cartels). Prior to joining DG Competition, between 1993 and 1997, Mr. Sakkers worked in the trade policy department of the European Commission, on anti-dumping and anti-subsidy issues. Before that, he was in-house legal counsel with KPN, the Dutch telecommunications company. Mr. Sakkers is a lawyer by education. After spending an initial year of (undergraduate) university education in the U.S., Mr. Sakkers obtained his law degree at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1990, where he specialized in Dutch civil and European law. In 1991 he obtained an LLM degree in European Law from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.
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"Commission rules against the collusive behaviour of Christie’s and Sotheby’s"* In a decision adopted on 30 October 2002, the European Commission found that Christie’s and Sotheby’s, the world’s two leading fine arts auction houses, breached European Union competition rules by colluding to fix (...)
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