Interview conducted by Damien Geradin, Partner, Euclid Law, Brussels — Professor, Tilburg University. In which ways is user data important for digital platforms? Data is essential for tech companies. This was very hard to predict even ten years ago. All online services are now powered by data (...)

During the Seminar organized the 5th of november of 2009, Damien Geradin and Paul Seabright talked about standards and competition. The seminar was animed by Anne Perrot, vice-president of the Competition Authority. Créé à la fin des années 1980 au sein de la Direction de la Prévision, le (...)

While the EU is known for imposing skyrocketing fines in cartel cases, there was for a long time very limited damages litigation. Damages claims have however started mushrooming over the past few years, with most of the “action” concentrated in a few EU Member States. This recent growth in (...)

This second roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust” (Paris, 22th of February 2013) was dedicated to « Personal data: Will competition law collide with privacy?». Bruno Lasserre author of the first contribution and President of the French Competition Authority provides us with the (...)

Laurence Idot* Madame la Commissaire, Monsieur le Secrétaire d’Etat, Mesdames, Messieurs et, si vous le permettez, chers amis, J’ai le grand honneur, mais surtout le grand plaisir, d’ouvrir ce matin au nom de la revue Concurrences cette demi-journée consacrée à la place de la concurrence dans le (...)

On 5 June 2007, the Global Competition Law Centre organized in cooperation with the European Commission an event aiming to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the adoption of EC competition rules with the signature of the EC Treaty in Rome. This event, which symbolically took place in the (...)