Ioannis Lianos
University College London, Hellenic Competition Commission (Athens)
President of the Hellenic Competition Commission
Ioannis Lianos serves as President of the Hellenic Competition Commission since September 2019. Moreover, Lianos is Professor, Chair of Global Competition Law and Public Policy at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (on leave). He is trained in both law and sociology. Professor Lianos is the founding director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES) at UCL Laws and served as the executive director of the Jevons Institute of Competition Law & Economics at UCL. He was Chief Researcher, Skolkovo Laboratory on Law and Development, National Research University, Higher School of Economics and academic head of the BRICS Competition Law Project from 2014-2019. He was previously the Vincent Wright chair at Sciences Po Paris between 2018-2019. He has also held an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the WZB (Social Science Researh centre) in Berlin from 2014-2016. Between 2011 to 2014 he was the Gutenberg Research Chair at France’s Ecole Nationale d’Administration. He is a visiting professor in competition and intellectual property law at the Universities of Chile in Santiago, the University of Strasbourg and a fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Law & Economics and was an Emile Noel Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Jean Monnet Centre and a fellow at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. He was also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong in 2014. His primary research interest lies in European and comparative competition law & policy, economic evidence and the legal system, public policy (including impact assessments), utilities regulation, IP law, law and economics and sociology. Professor Lianos is a Non-Governmental Advisor at the International Competition Network since 2009, a research partner to UNCTAD in competition law and policy since 2010, and an elected member of the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute since 2010. He is also a senior editor in many specialised journals in the competition policy field as well as the co-editor of the GLOBAL COMPETITION LAW & ECONOMICS series. He has published extensively books and articles in various languages and leading academic journals. His most recent publications include Competition Law: Analysis, Cases and Materials (OUP, 2019), Regulating Blockchain: Techno-Social and Legal Challenges (OUP, 2019), Reconciling Efficiency and Equity- A Global Challenge for Competition Law? (CUP, 2019), Brands, Competition and IP Law (CUP, 2015), Damages Actions for Competition Law Infringements (OUP, 2015), Competition and the State (SUP, 2014), the two volumes Handbook in European Competition Law (Edward Elgar, 2013), Competition Law and Development (SUP, 2013), The EU after the Treaty of Lisbon (CUP, 2012), Regulating Trade in Services in the EU and the WTO (CUP, 2012). In 2012 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme prize for his seminal research on economic evidence. He is also a Laureat of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (2005). Between 2014 and 2019 he was a member of the review college of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. he has advised a number of governments and companies on competition law, IP matters as well as better regulation (impact assessment, CBA).
Distinctions
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Unilateral Conduct
Nominee, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Unilateral Conduct
Winner, 2016 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Private Enforcement
Nominee, 2014 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Intellectual Property
Nominee, 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Unilateral Conduct
Linked authors
Catherine Prieto
University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Luc Gyselen
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer (Brussels)
Louis Vogel
Vogel & Vogel (Paris)
Chantal Momège
Ashurst (Paris)
Daniel Tricot
University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Assimakis Komninos
White & Case (Brussels)
Francesco Rosati
RBB Economics (Brussels)
Philippe Choné
ENSAE Paris-Tech
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Background Following the trend of a number of other National Competition Authorities in Europe (The Commission and other 17 Member states operate leniency programmes in the EU, see Authorities in EU Member States which operate a leniency programme) the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) (...)
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This case relates to an appeal brought by Claymore Dairies Ltd (hereinafter “Claymore”), a processor of fresh milk active in Scotland, against the decision of the Office of Faire Trading (“OFT” to the effect that there was insufficient evidence that its competitor Robert Wiseman Dairies Plc (...)
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1. Greek competition law has been formally adopted in 1977 with the aim to preparing the accession of Greece to the European Communities. The Act on the Control of Monopolies and Oligopolies and the Provision of Free Competition 703/1977 (“Competition Act” or “Act”) has since been amended on (...)
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The company Auto Service, member of the Technocar’s motor vehicle distributor network has been informed in 2003 by Technocar that it would not be included in the distribution network, which was re-organized accordingly to the principles of the new Commission Regulation (EC) n° 1400/2002, of 31 (...)
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A number of Greek composers and the Association of Greek composers complained to the Hellenic Competition Commission (Competition Commission) that the Greek Society for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AEPI), a profit making organization of collective administration and distribution of (...)
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We present a model of a market failure based on a requirement provision by digital platforms in the acquisition of personal information from users of other products/services. We establish the economic harm from the market failure and the requirement using traditional antitrust methodology. (...)
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This series of articles presents different points of view about the priorities of the newly established Commission on competition policy in Europe in the aftermath of the decision prohibiting the Siemens/Alstom merger and of the manifesto published by French and German governments. These (...)
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This foreword is an In Memoriam of Mr. Robert Kovar. Robert Kovar (1936-2016), an innovative and rigorous academic, one of the great Maestros of Community and human law of exceptional quality, was one of the giants of the French school of Community law, the first agrégé in France in this "new" (...)
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The paper explores the competition dynamics of the global seed market. It documents the growth strategies of the major seed companies, in particular their M&A activity and their reliance on complex intellectual property strategies in order to offer a one stop shop solution to farmers. (...)
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"This On-Topic revisits the complex issues rising in the food sector and its value chain. Both the European Union and the US competition authorities have scrutinized relationships between food chain actors. The increasing market concentration raises new challenges for competition enforcement (...)
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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 (...)
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1. India has a competition law since 2002, but it is only recently that the competition law regime has been effectively implemented. What are the reasons that explain this delay? 2. How receptive has the business community been to the need for competition law in India? How do you intend to (...)
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Quelles sont les conséquences pour les entreprises de la Communication de la Commission concernant l’article 82 du Traité ? Rend-elle l’action de la Commission plus prévisible ? L’utilisation de nombreux critères économiques réduit-elle le risque que les pratiques pro-concurrentielles des entreprises (...)
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This first session of the Vertical Restrictions Conference explores the limits of the application of competition law to vertical arrangements and in particular the case law relating to the concept of agreement under Article 81 or other national competition law provisions, the case law on (...)
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Article 82 is traditionally analyzed as a tool to integrate and liberalize the European Single Market and to protect competition from distortion. As such, there is no comprehensive discussion of the tensions that lie at the center of the objective of protecting competition in the current (...)
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The recent reform of the Greek competition Act had the objective to align competition law enforcement in Greece with the new EC competition law regime resulting from the adoption of Regulation 1/2003.This aim has been partly achieved but the new amendments also reinforced the distinct features (...)
