

Andreas Mundt
Andreas Mundt has been President of the German Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) since December 2009. He is a member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee since 2010. After qualifying as a lawyer following studies at the University of Bonn and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Andreas Mundt entered the Federal Ministry of Economics where he worked from 1991 to 1993. He then joined the staff of the Free Democratic Party in the German Parliament from 1993 to 2000, where he was in charge of the portfolio of labour and social law. In 2000 Andreas Mundt joined the Bundeskartellamt as rapporteur, with responsibility for banking and card payment systems issues. He was Head of the International Unit of the Bundeskartellamt from 2001 to 2005 and Director of General Policy from 2005 to 2009.
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Panellists of the fourth roundtable’s of the New Frontiers of Antitrust Conference came back on persistent difficulties to reconcile competition law, particularly Article 102 TFEU enforcement, with economic analysis and a "more effects-based approach". The President of the Bundeskartellamt (...)
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The effective collection and exchange of information is crucial for the well-functioning of European antitrust enforcement in the context of the European Competition Network (ECN). Within the ECN, some national authorities still lack effective information-gathering tools. In the larger context (...)
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This third roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust” (Paris, 21 February 2014) was dedicated to “European Competition Network 10 years after & EC Regulation 1/2003: Can cooperation be extended to merger control and advocacy?”. The objectives for the authors of this roundtable (...)
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Interview conducted by Jürgen Schindler et Ines Litzenberger, Allen & Overy, Brussels. Mr Mundt, you were appointed as president of the German Bundeskartellamt in 2009. In June of this year, the German Competition Law was revised. What are your reflections on the most recent developments in (...)
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The fourth roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust”, Paris, 10 February 2012, was dedicated to the distinction between anticompetitive object and anticompetitive effect. In the first contribution, Richard Whish, Professor at the King’s College of London, provides some introductory (...)
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Interview conducted by Dirk Schroeder, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Cologne. Mr. Mundt, you were the first president of the Federal Cartel Office chosen from its ranks. Has that made your job easier? That’s correct, I joined the Bundeskartellamt back in 2000. Of course, my knowledge (...)
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Prosecuting Cartels in France and in Germany, Introductory papers : The Bundeskartellamt’s New Organization and Policies Andreas MUNDT President of the Bundeskartellamt 1. In an increasingly international environment where it is standard practice for businesses to operate not in several (...)
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Dr. Frédéric Jenny is the Renaissance man of competition policy. As an economist, scholar, judge and enforcer, he has helped transform the landscape of global competition enforcement. In the first (...)

See the "avant-propos" of Laurence Idot, Frédéric Jenny et Nicolas Charbit the Foreword of Martine Béhar-Touchais The full list of contributors and the Table of Contents 100 contributions for the (...)

In the wake of William E. Kovacic Liber Amicorum -An Antitrust Tribute - Volume I, this Volume II provides, in the European tradition of Liber Amicorum, 27 contributions from 37 prominent authors (...)