David Leys (Belgian) is a qualified lawyer of the Brussels Bar. He is also a teaching and research assistant at Université catholique de Louvain and a visiting professor at Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer in Brussels. Previously, David worked as an associate at Sidley Austin and McGuireWoods in Brussels. David holds his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Columbia Law School in New York City, his Master of European Law (LL.M.) from College of Europe in Bruges, his Master in Law (J.D. equivalent) from Université catholique de Louvain and his bilingual Bachelor in Law from Université Saint Louis in Brussels.
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I. Facts On 24 January 2007, the Commission adopted the decision 2007/374 which stated that the scheme of aid applied to digital terrestrial broadcasters offering pay-TV services and cable pay-TV operators in Italy was incompatible with the internal market. Following the adoption of that (...)
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I. Facts The Confederación Española de Empresarios de Estaciones de Servicio (hereafter “CEEES” ) and the Asociación de Gestores of Estaciones de Servicio (hereafter “AGES” ) claimed the annulment of a Decision of the Commission of 28 April 2013 (hereafter “the contested decision”) (...)
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I. Facts On 3 April 2012, based on the Regulation No 1049/ 2001 (hereafter "the Regulation"), Mr Jürgen Beninca (hereafter “the applicant”) called the European Commission to grant him access to a memorandum of the Head of the unit responsible for competition matters of the (...)
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I. Facts During the summer of 2003, the Commission received information about the possible existence of an agreement between the major European manufacturers of elevators and escalators within the European Union: Kone, Otis, Thyssen and Schindler. In early 2004, the Commission conducted (...)
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I. Facts Deutsche Bahn AG (hereafter “the rail company” and "the applicant") is an international company operating in the field of national and international transport of goods and passengers as well as logistics and services in the rail sector. DB Mobility Logistics AG, DB Energie GmbH, DB (...)
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1. Facts Several telecommunications companies introduced a complaint for abuse of dominant position against “Entreprise des Postes et Télécommunications” (hereafter “P&T”) to the Luxembourg Competition Inspectorate. The latter requested the President of the Luxembourg Competition Council (...)
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1. Facts On 1 April 1982, "la Pastourelle" (hereafter "the plaintiff"), limited company under Belgian law, and "Maison Rolling" (hereafter "the defendant"), shop located in Luxembourg, concluded an exclusive sale agreement for a duration of 5 years. This agreement was extended for the same (...)
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Pierre Marie Sabbadini, author of this book divided into four chapters, works as a lawyer at DLA Piper in Brussels. He was assisted by Caroline Buts (professor at the Department of Applied Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Nina Mampaey (also a lawyer at DLA Piper in Brussels). (...)
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The thesis aims to propose a new procedural reading of the application of the European Union Antitrust rules based essentially on the efficiency and transactional nature of the relations between the public authority and economic operators. The European Union’s antitrust settlement procedures (...)
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This second edition of the Handbook on European Competition Law, updated to 30 September 2016, covers all EU competition law excluding State aid. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of this technical subject, easily accessible and illustrated by the most important cases of (...)
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The authors of this handy book of three parts are Czech competition legal practitioners and academics. Robert Neruda is a Partner at Havel, Holasek & Partners s.r.o., David Raus is a Judge at the Regional Court in Brno, Michal Petr is a Vice-chairman at the Czech Competition Authority and (...)
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This book sheds clear light on the current international contours of competition law vis-à-vis communications, and provides deeply informed insight and lessons to be learned from experiences in several countries. With a primary focus on Brazil, which alone in the world to date has legislated (...)
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On 7-8 November 2013, the 9th Conference of the Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) dealt with the question of antitrust damages in EU law and policy. The content of this highly rated conference was summarized in this book. The directors of this contribution are some of the most renowned (...)
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The laws and principles that exist to enforce the principle of net neutrality are complex and much debated. This new book by Katerina Maniadaki presents a thorough analysis of EU Competition Law as a tool to protect net neutrality. Bringing clarity to the debate, EU Competition Law, (...)
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Competition Law Enforcement and Compliance across the World. A Comparative Review is a complete and all-encompassing investigation into all areas of competition law enforcement and compliance, covering more than ninety jurisdictions. Horacio Vedia Jerez presents a detailed comparative study (...)
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Competition Law in Asia-Pacific provides you with a practical, full-length guide to competition law and practice in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on the experience of recognized competition law practice leaders in key jurisdictions, it will help you navigate the competition landscape in 15 (...)
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Companies today must consider and comply with competition law in their daily business management. The financial and reputational risks for breaching such rules are severe and the success of many merger and acquisition projects depends very much on it. While competition law rules become (...)
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Competition authorities have very broad powers of inspection within companies and they now exercise these powers at the highest level of efficiency in order to detect and sanction the most serious infringements of the competition rules quickly. These competition inspections are usually (...)
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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of competition law and its interpretation in Singapore covers every aspect of the subject—the various forms of restrictive agreements and abuse of dominance prohibited by law and the rules on (...)
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Despite several decades’ worth of explicit directives, green papers, white papers, proposals, and communications from the European Commission, the actual enforcement of competition law across the Member States today is rife with shifting patterns that escape a clearly bounded framework. The (...)
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This book presents and evaluates the results of an AHRC funded research project designed to generate a quantitative analysis of the extent to which private enforcement of competition law has taken place across twenty-seven EU Member States over a period of 13 years to 1 May 2012 in order to (...)
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Les inspections de concurrence, JALABERT-DOURY Nathalie, Bruylant, 2013, 2nd edition, 504 p.
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European competition law has undergone an essential change in the last ten years or so: its centre of gravity has shifted from the debate on the existence of an infringement to that of its financial penalty. The legal issues raised by fines imposed at EU level are varied and complex, while (...)
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Throughout this unprecedented crisis which is hitting all major economies in the EU, the escalation of the Eurozone recession increasingly undermines public confidence in the ability of competitive markets to deliver positive outcomes. A debate on the most appropriate way to enforce (...)
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It probably goes without saying that anti-monopoly law and practice are of very recent vintage in China. In August 2008, 118 years after the Sherman Act and 50 years after the Treaty of Rome, China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) came into effect. Since then the enforcement of the AML has seen (...)
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Once Brazil came to a clear awareness of its prodigious global economic power a few short years ago, the government quickly undertook a number of sweeping procedural reforms in its competition system that not only made the Brazilian antitrust enforcement authority a model for newer competition (...)
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There has a been a long-standing debate on the compatibility of EU competition law with fundamental rights protection, particularly as the latter is enshrined in the due process requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This book, a signal contribution to that debate, (...)
