Jacques Steenbergen

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 (...)

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, (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)