Jacques Steenbergen
Belgian Competition Authority (Brussels)
President
Prof. Dr. Jacques Steenbergen (born in Antwerp (Belgium) in 1949) is since its establishment as an independent authority in 2013 president of the Belgian Competition Authority. He was from 2007 to 2008 director general of the directorate general for competition in the Belgian ministry of economic affairs. He teaches competition law at the University of Leuven since 1979. Before joining the competition authority, he was partner in the Brussels office of Allen & Overy, and he has been legal secretary to the President of the Court of Justice under the presidency of Prof. J. Mertens de Wilmars.
He is also member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee, member of the board of editors of the Dutch-Belgian European law review SEW, member of the scientific committee of the law review Concurrences, member of the Board of the Stichting van het Koninklijk Conservatorium of Brussels (the foundation of the royal academy for music of Brussels), and honorary member of the Bar of Brussels (Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten bij de Balie te Brussel). He is a former member of the Brussels and Flemish Bar Councils.
He lectured or gave conferences and served as member of nomination committees or PhD examination committees in institutes and universities in Austria, Belgium, China, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. He also spoke at conferences in Brazil, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. He publishes regularly on EU and competition law.
He obtained a PhD at the KU Leuven with prof. dr. W. van Gerven on legal remedies and ailing industries (1978). He holds a masters degree in law from the KU Leuven (1972), and bachelor degrees or equivalent certificates in law, philosophy and economics from the University of Antwerp (UFSIA)(1969).
Linked authors
Nicolas Petit
European University Institute (Florence)
Gabriel Bleser
Moyse Bleser (Luxembourg)
Michal S. Gal
University of Haifa
Charles Webb
FedEx (Memphis)
Alexander Italianer
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer (Brussels)
Fabien Zivy
European Court of Justice (Luxembourg)
David Bosco
University of Aix-Marseille
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Efficient and equitable interim relief procedures are in the interest of the authorities as well as of their stakeholders. Their efficiency depends in the first place on the balancing of the prima facie test in order to protect both the victims of infringements in case an infringement is (...)
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Two themes were covered in the roundtable. The principle of ne bis in idem concerns the interplay between different procedures of sanctions of a public nature. The interplay between public and private enforcement has been considered in the draft damages directive and in the French case-law, (...)
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In the Eurotunnel case, the analysis conducted in parallel by the French Competition Authority and the Competition Commission on the merger between Eurotunnel and SeaFrance’s assets, brought to divergent outcomes. This case gives the opportunity to discuss about the European approach to (...)
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This article reproduces the opening statement delivered at the Belgian Competition Day held in Brussels on October 21, 2010. Prof. Steenbergen emphasises that the Belgian competition authority aims at contributing to a competition culture, and that it tries to do so not only by establishing (...)
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The question of how size affects optimal competition law generates increasing interest. Accordingly, this special issue of the Revue Concurrences includes some of the papers presented at the conference on competition law in small economies. In this essay, Prof. Gal argues that, the size of an (...)
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QUESTIONS : 1. Since April 2007, you are the Director General of the Belgian Service for Competition. Prior to this, you were a Partner in a major international law firm, as well as a Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Could you please come back on the reasons which induced you (...)
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Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum : An Antitrust Professor on the Bench
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Ian Forrester - A Scot Without Borders Liber Amicorum Vol. II
This two-volume Liber amicorum is a collection of tributes to Ian Forrester’s outstanding career and articles signed by prominent academics and practitioners around the world on the most current (...)
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A quoi sert la concurrence ?
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 (...)
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William E. Kovacic: An Antitrust Tribute Liber Amicorum Vol. II
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 (...)
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