Csongor István Nagy is professor of law at and the head of the Department of Private International Law at the University of Szeged. He is admitted to the Budapest Bar and arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Budapest. He is recurrent visiting professor at the Central European University (Budapest/New York), the Sapientia University of Transylvania (Romania) and the Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia). He is associate member at the Centre for Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen. He had visiting appointments in New York (Cornell University), the Hague (Asser Institute), Munich (twice, Max Planck Institute), Hamburg (Max Planck Institute), Edinburgh (University of Edinburgh), London (British Institute of International and Comparative Law), Bloomington, Indiana (Indiana University), Brisbane, Australia (TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland) and the China-EU School of Law, Beijing. He has more than 180 publications in English, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian and (in translation) in Croatian and Spanish. His works have been widely cited, for instance, in European Court of Justice cases and by Hungarian courts.
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1. Introduction Anticompetitive object is a key notion of EU competition law and is being remolded. This paper presents the trajectory of this process and its impact and demonstrates how this impaired the consistency and predictability of competition analysis. In Allianz , the CJEU (...)
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Facts Various Hungarian supermarkets and agricultural organisations, under the auspices of the Hungarian Ministry for Rural Development, fixed the prices of watermelons and agreed not to market imported watermelons. Procedural history After the institution of the competition proceeding, the (...)
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Facts The Hungarian Competition Office (HCO) established that the defendants engaged in bid-rigging concerning certain tenders published by the Municipality of Budapest for construction and renovation works (roads, bridges) and imposed fines. The key evidence was a hand-written document that (...)
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Facts Leading Hungarian bank unilaterally increased the fees of pre-redemption. When the customers entered the contract, there was no fee of pre-redemption but the loan contracts expressly authorized the bank to amend the contract unilaterally. Procedural history On the basis of the (...)
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On the 23rd of February 2009, The Hungarian Constitutional Court (hereafter: HCC) has finally spoken about the Amending Law of the Hungarian Competition Act (hereafter: Amendment), considering it partially unconstitutional. The Amendment concerned different issues, among others: damages (...)
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The Hungarian Competition Office refused to condemn the defendant’s conduct in a dominant position case due to the lack of palpable market effects. The behaviour would have admittedly amounted to an abuse in case of perceptible market consequences. However, in the absence of such impairment to (...)
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This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)
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