During the Nasse Seminar organized the 8th of December of 2016, Anne Yvrand-Billon (economist, Vice-president of the Arafer) and Loraine Donnedieu de Vabres-Tranié (lawyer at Jeantet Associés) talked about the intermodality of transports. This seminar was presented by Umberto Berkani, Deputy (...)


Umberto Berkani
A former student of the École normale supérieure de Cachan, Umberto Berkani holds an advanced degree (agrégation) in economics and management (2003), and an advanced diploma (Diplôme d’études approfondies) in law and economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2004). Previously a Case Officer at the Conseil de la concurrence (which became the Autorité de la concurrence) from September 2004 to December 2010, he was, since January 2011 a national expert seconded to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition.
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The regulation of competition in the transport sector lies both in the enforcement of “classical” competition law and, as regards rail transport and shortly road transport, in the action of the Railway Activities Regulation Authority, the powers and jurisdiction of which have been recently (...)
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1. General - Scope of application Portrait of the Authority as a young girl: the Competition Authority resulting from the LME Act, between success and a new start, T. DAHAN and C. LEMAIRE (RJEP, n° 683, Feb. 2011, p. 3) Who’s afraid of the control room? C. NOURISSAT (RLDA, Feb. 2011, 57, (...)
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1. General - Scope of application Quelques perspectives après Lisbonne, Y. BOT (JCP éd. G, n° 52, Dec. 21, 2010, Libres propos, 580, p. 9) Misunderstood Administrative Authorities (IAA), M.-A. FRISON-ROCHE (JCP éd. G, n° 48, Nov. 29, 2010, Libres propos, 1166, p. 2206) Competition Law: 2009 in (...)
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(1) General - Scope of application Cooperation between the European Commission and national courts in competition law, L. Idot (Rev. of European Cases, 2009-2010/1, p. 59). The summary proceedings before the President of the General Court of the European Union since September 2007, Mr Jaeger (...)
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1. General - Scope of application Liberalisation of online gambling: overview of the future legal framework, T. Verbiest, P. Pelletier and G. Lebon (RLDA May 2010, n° 2866, p. 37) See also, L’ouverture à la concurrence et à la régulation du secteur des jeux d’argent et de hasard en ligne en France (...)
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1. General - Scope of application The limits of Antitrust and Chicago School tradition, G. L. Priest (Journal of Competition Law & Economics, March 2010, Vol. 6, Issue 1, p. 1) The most recent issue of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics is a special issue, entitled The Limits (...)
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1. General - Scope of application Le retour de l’objet anticoncurrentiel..., L. Idot (Concurrences, n° 4-2009, editorial, p. 1) Following a number of rulings by the Community Courts in recent months, the question of the conditions under which competition authorities classify practices as having (...)
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1. General - Scope of application What competition policy in times of crisis? (Interview with Me Patrick Hubert), P. Hubert (Interview with P. Hubert, Petites affiches, 23 June 2009, No. 124, p. 3) "Plus n’est pas nécessairement mieux" or the difficulty of making the real question(s) of law (...)
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1. General - Scope of application Reforms of French competition law: the big game? Part [2] E. Claudel (RTD com. Jan-March 2009, p. 91-113). In this very comprehensive article devoted to the overall reform of competition law in 2008, Emmanuelle Claudel goes back over the premises of the (...)
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1. General - Scope of application Competition law as an obstacle or remedy to the crisis La crise économique et financière, la régulation et la concurrence, F. Jenny (Les Échos, 19 March 2009, p. 11; Concurrences, No. 2-2009) In the short article published in Les Echos, in tune with current (...)
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1. General - Scope of application Modernizing the economy... (Special file devoted to the law of modernization of the economy n° 2008-776 of August 4, 2008), D. BOSCO ET ALII (Contracts, conc., consom., nov. 2008, p. 8-38) In this very complete dossier devoted to the "catch-all" law on the (...)
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1. General - Scope of application The networking of regulatory authorities, L. IDOT (RDP 2008, n° 3, p. 787-821) In this feature article, Laurence Idot addresses the highly topical issue of the networking of sector-specific regulatory authorities at Community level, based on the model of the (...)
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1. General - Scope of application Interactions between competition and consumer policy, M. Armstrong (Competition policy international, spring 2008, vol. 4, issue 1, p. 97). The author gives us here a rich and interesting reflection on the relationship between competition and consumer policy. (...)
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1. General - Scope of application Group action and anti-competitive practices: Prospects for development in the United Kingdom, C. Prieto (D. 2008, Chron., p. 232) At a time when the European Commission is publishing its White Paper on damages actions for breach of EC antitrust rules, it is (...)
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1. General - Scope of application L. Idot, L. Idot (JTDE. Oct. 2007, No. 142, doctr., p. 225). In this article, Laurence Idot examines the links between the notion of general interest and competition law. Does the general interest constitute a limit to competition law or, conversely, is it (...)
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1. General - Scope of application The notary seized by Community law (XV Notarial-University Meeting), D. Fasquelle (Petites affiches, 29 August 2007, No. 173, p. 30) In this paper, written on the occasion of the XVth Notarial-University Meeting, Daniel Fasquelle tries to convince notaries (...)
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1. General - Scope of application L’impact du droit de la concurrence sur la gestion du patrimoine des personnes publiques, H. Legal (AJDA 14 May 2007, p. 949) While the EC Treaty does not in any way prejudice the system of property ownership in the Member States, all economic activity is (...)
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1. General - Scope of application 1.1 Miscellaneous items Competition law and intellectual property rights: Is the property rights’ approach right? I. LIANOS (8th Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 2005-2006, ed. Hart. Publishing, Oxford 2006, p. 153) In particular, competition law (...)
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1. General - Scope of application A new development in the relations between the Competition Council and competition law jurisdictions, C. LEMAIRE and D. BLANC (JCP éd. E, 9 Nov. 2006, No. 45, 2590, p. 1879) In this very useful article, the authors examine the relations and reciprocal (...)
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(1) General - Scope of application Dassonville, Keck et les autres : de la mesure avant toute chose, R. KOVAR (RTD eur. 2006, p. 213) In this article, Robert Kovar proposes, ten years later, a calm reading of Community case law on measures having equivalent effect to quantitative export (...)
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1. General - Scope of application Pouvoir de marché et liberté des entreprises, les fondements de la politique de concurrence, C. PRIETO (D. 2006, doctr., p. 1603) In this feature article, Catherine Prieto examines the tumultuous relationship between the now essential competition law concept of (...)
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Period of survey: January 2006 - March 2006 1GENERALITES - SCOPE OF APPLICATION The professions and competition law, M-D. HAGELSTEEN (D. Admin., n° 3, March 2006, p. 6) In the current debate on the liberal professions, Marie-Dominique Hagelsteen traces in this article the reasons for the (...)
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Period of Survey: November 2005 - February 2006 1GENERALITES - SCOPE OF APPLICATION Les barrières à l’entrée, un concept qui se lézarde ?, F. JENNY (RLC 2005/5, Editorial, p. 3) Welcoming remarks on the difficulties that competition authorities have in understanding the blurred concept of (...)
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1GENERALITES - SCOPE OF APPLICATION Europe and competition: the big misunderstanding..., L. IDOT (Europe, August-September 2005, p. 3). In an editorial in the journal Europe on the lessons to be learned from the results of the French and Dutch referendums on the European Constitution, (...)
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1 GENERALITIES - SCOPE OF APPLICATION Chronique Concurrence, Mise en œuvre des articles 81 et 82 CE (1er avril 2003 - 30 septembre 2004), J.-B. BLAISE and L. IDOT (RTD eur. 2005, p. 131) In the second part of their column, this time devoted to the implementation of Articles 81 and 82 of the EC (...)
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1 General - Scope of application European competition law with the test of the professional secrecy of lawyers, M. DENRUYTER (RDAI 6/2004, p. 751-795) In this article, Muriel Denruyter argues for the extension of Legal Privilege to corporate lawyers. The purpose of this study, the author (...)
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1 General - Scope of application The new competition policy of the European Union, M. MONTI, (RDUE, 2/2004, p. 137) This article by the former European Commissioner for Competition, taking stock of the reforms carried out or initiated during his term of office, highlights developments (...)
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1 GENERALITIES - SCOPE OF APPLICATION What is the impact of competition from discount stores on prices in food-dominated hypermarkets, K. BERGER (Rev. conc. consom., No. 139, July-Sept. 2004, p. 1). In this period of intense reflection on the necessary revision of the Galland Act, this (...)