This volume comprises 12 chapters authored by Covington & Burling lawyers. These chapters cover key areas of EU law that impact the life sciences industry, including the specific regulatory obligations that apply to life sciences companies, EU competition rules, EU data protection rules and (...)

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 (...)

Former Commissioner Mario Monti announced at the Fordham Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy in October 2003 that the Commission would conduct a re-examination of the law and practice of Article 82. Since then a huge amount of intellectual energy has been spent - both (...)