Frédéric Jenny

Maintaining competitive neutrality on markets where private and public firms compete is a necessary (but often ignored) complement to competition law enforcement. Indeed on such markets, competition without competitive neutrality will result in misallocation of resources and inefficiencies. The (...)

1. This year was the sixth edition of the New Frontiers of Antitrust Conference. In the name of the organizing committee, I want to thank all the participants as well as the speakers who year after year make this conference the most awaited and best attended competition conference in France as (...)

This article focuses on substantive convergence in merger controls, a topic of increasing importance and on which there is no unanimity. Two questions are discussed: First, how much substantive convergence has taken place over the last two decades? Second, how much more convergence is possible (...)

En septembre 2004, Concurrences était un projet. Dix ans après, en septembre 2014, Concurrences est encore un projet, mais un projet en permanente évolution. A l’occasion des 10 ans, le souhait des fondateurs a été, non pas tant de célébrer un anniversaire, exercice par trop narcissique, mais de (...)

The first roundtable of the conference held in Paris, the 13th May 2014 on the recovery of antitrust harm was dedicated to the antitrust harm in foreign legal systems. Michele CARPAGNANO Professeur, Université de Trente Codirecteur, Osservatorio Antitrust Knut FOURNIER Chercheur associé, (...)

This second roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust” (Paris, 21 February 2014) was dedicated to the: “Patents: Can antitrust authorities contribute to fixing the dysfunctional patent system?”. This roundtable acknowledges the fact that there is an increasing number of cases at the (...)

In this contribution derived from the DGCCRF workshop of the 18th October 2013 and dedicated to "the Minister of the Economy, guardian of the public interest in the mergers control", Frederic Jenny focuses on the general interest and the economic analysis. Atelier de la DGCCRF “Politique de la (...)

Cette collection d’articles examine une question laissée relativement inexplorée dans le cadre d’études consacrés à l’interaction entre le droit de la concurrence et le droit de la propriété intellectuelle (ou propriété industrielle et commerciale): la capacité des institutions chargées de mettre en œuvre (...)

In this short introduction, Frederic Jenny, Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee, presents the fourth edition of the "New Frontiers of Antitrust" conference. After having recalled the opening speech of Joaquin Almunia on the recent activity of the European Commission and his vision for (...)

The fourth roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust” (Paris, 22 February 2013) was dedicated to "Industrial policy: Can a pro-competition industrial policy exist?". In the first contribution, Frederic Jenny specifies the notions in the matter. Jorge Padilla, author of the second (...)

Competition law violations give rise to various types of sanction: administrative, civil, penal or even professional. Frédéric Jenny analyzes the interest of each type of sanction, puts into context the expected deterrent effect of administrative sanctions and focuses on the need to determine the (...)

Ce dossier réunit trois contributions sur l’application privée du droit de la concurrence présentées le 5 juillet 2012 lors d’une conférence à Bruxelles organisée par la revue Concurrences. Dans la première contribution, Frédéric Jenny, président du Comité de la concurrence de l’OCDE, expose les (...)

This set of two papers is derived from the training session on the “Determination of fines” organized by Concurrences Review that was held on 10th November 2011 in Paris. The first contribution written by Prof. Frédéric Jenny is dedicated to the economic model of the deterrence and its limits. The (...)

This set of three papers is derived from the training session on the information exchanges organised by Concurrences Review that has held on the 31th March 2011 in Paris. The first contribution written by Prof. Frederic Jenny, is dedicated to the definition of the fundamental notions. The (...)

Behavioural economics: Questioning the foundations of antitrust? Introduction Frédéric JENNY President, OECD Competition Committee President of the International board of the Review Concurrences Professor, Co-Director of the Centre Européen de Droit et d’Economie, ESSEC, Paris 1. Ladies and (...)

The context of the current financial and economic crisis raises important questions concerning the future of antitrust. First, is the compatibility between the goal of financial stability and the promotion of competition in the financial sector. Second, concern is voiced about the effects on (...)

Depuis sa création en 2004, la revue Concurrences organise un colloque. Les thèmes abordés ont naturellement été variés : de l’adaptation du système français au règlement n° 1/2003 à la place de la concurrence dans le traité de Lisbonne en passant par les questions de banque et de finance et la réforme (...)

Alors que dans le système de mise en oeuvre des articles 81 et 82 CE issu du règlement n° 17/62, il était usuel de distinguer l’application de ces textes, d’une part, par la Commission, d’autre part, par les autorités et juridictions nationales, ce qui conduisait à privilégier un critère formel fondé (...)

Recent case law of the European Courts, the recent guidelines of the European Commission on non-horizontal mergers, the decisional practice of the European Commission as well as that of various national competition authorities and courts seem to focus on the possible anticompetitive foreclosure (...)

This article examines the use of economic analysis in the review of judicial decisions by the French Cour de Cassation, the highest court in the judicial order, in the area of antitrust law. In a first part, it explains why, when reviewing the legality of appeals courts decisions in this area, (...)

Présentation À l’heure où la Commission publie de nouvelles lignes directrices relatives au calcul des amendes en matière antitrust, il apparaît opportun de s’interroger sur la finalité et l’efficacité des sanctions infligées aux entreprises ayant enfreint les règles de concurrence, notamment dans le cas (...)

Les actes de ce colloque reprennent l’organisation en deux temps des travaux. Dans un premier temps, sont étudiés les deux grands axes de la réforme: Sur le plan substantiel, l’objectif de la réforme communautaire est d’introduire également en cette matière une analyse plus économique des aides. Après (...)

Vous avez été nommé le 1er septembre 2004 conseiller à la Cour de Cassation en service extraordinaire. Pouvez-vous nous indiquer la nature des attributions qui vous ont été confiées dans cette haute juridiction ? Pourquoi la Cour de cassation était-elle intéressée par votre profil et pourquoi (...)

Concurrences is a workshop, a projects center dedicated to competition laws. In Europe competition law is not only part of Community law, but part of the 25 EU Member States national body of laws as well. It also reaches beyond European Economic Area. It is therefore no coincidence if a few (...)