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2nd Concurrences Cartels Workshop: An advanced seminar on substantive and procedural EU developments - Opening Keynote Speech (Webinar - Jan. 20th, 2021)Your search returned 255 results Review Conferences
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Introduction [Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,] It is a pleasure for me to speak to you this afternoon, thereby opening the first session of today’s and tomorrow’s seminar on substantive and procedural developments in EU competition law. This seminar comes quite at the right time: EU competition law (...)
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Articulation between trade policy and competition policy (Nasse Seminar - Paris, 23 Oct. 2020)During the seminar organised on 23 October 2020, Sébastien Jean - Research Director at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Director of CEPII, member of the Economic Analysis Council (CAE) and Olivier Prost - Associate lawyer at the Brussels office (...) -
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Digital ecosystems: Regulatory intervention & efficiency trade-offs (Webinar, 12 November 2020)Contents: Platform regulation: Market efficiency vs. Ecosystem innovation logics, Carmelo Cennamo, Professor with Special Responsibilities, Copenhagen Business School The Digital Markets Act: A radical proposal for the regulation of ecosystems aimed at fixing “antitrust failures”, Antonio (...) -
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Start-ups, European champions and unicorns for a digital sovereignty: What role for competition policy? (New Frontiers of Antitrust, 3 Nov. 2020)Contents: Reining in digital unicorns: Is Europe setting the rules for the world?, Dr Katarzyna Czapracka, Partner, White & Case, Brussels and Warsaw A few thoughts on privacy and competition, Martin d’Halluin, Senior Vice President, Global Competition Law & Policy Counsel, News Corp, (...) -
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Sustainable development: What role for competition policy? (New Frontiers of Antirust, 3 Nov. 2020)Contents: Does welfare include the green factor? Integration of sustainability into competition law , Gönenç Gürkaynak, Founding Partner, ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law, Istanbul, Member of Faculty, Bilkent University Faculty of Law, and Bilgi University Faculty of Law Competition policy (...) -
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Digital: What regulatory model for platforms? (New Frontiers of Antitrust, 5 Nov. 2020)The uncertainties of the New Competition Tool Séverine Schrameck Lawyer, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Paris 1. On 2 June 2020, the Commission launched a consultation on the introduction of a new competition tool, the New Competition Tool (NCT), with the aim of addressing the (...) -
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Algorithmic antitrust (London, 6 March 2020)On the 6th of March 2020, few days before the Covid-19 lockdown, LL.M. Programme Director Dr Aurelien Portuese has convened a conference on “Algorithmic antitrust” in the Waldegrave Drawing Rooms of St Mary’s University London, in Twickenham. This conference was an annual conference organised as (...) -
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Supplier-distributor relationships tested in the Covid-19 epidemic (Webinar - April 21, 2020)The health crisis and its consequences have had a direct impact on the trade agreements that had just been signed for the year 2020 between distributors and the food companies that supply them. This situation has led suppliers to think about the different legal mechanisms that could be (...) -
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Competition law and developing countries: Overarching themes from Africa, cartels and corruption, and mergersIn this edition we present an overarching view of competition law and developing countries, then pick up themes, such as cartels, corruption and mergers, from the “Antitrust and developing and emerging economies” annual Concurrences review Conference held on November 1st, 2019, at the New York (...) -
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Jurisdiction of the French Competition Authority over the practices of professional ordersThis contribution was collected following up the Conference "Competition and regulation: How to coordinate the interventions of competition authorities and sectoral regulators?" organized by Concurrences in Paris on 14 November 2019. 1. If the question of the competence of the Competition (...) -
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Is the role of the competition authorities limited to sanctions? (Paris, 17 Sept. 2019)Intervention made on September 17th, 2019 during the conference organized by Concurrences. I. Law enforcement function, decision-making function, advisory function 1. The primary mission of the Competition Authority ("ADLC" or "the Authority") is to ensure the competitive functioning of the (...) -
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Beyond Alstom-Siemens: Is there a need to revise competition law goals? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, June 14th, 2019)The present contributions were gathered following up the 10th edition of the “New Frontiers of Antitrust” annual Concurrences review Conference held in Paris on June 14th, 2019, at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. The discussions revolved around four topics. The members of the first (...) -
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Competition authorities: Which judicial review? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, June 14th, 2019)The present contributions were gathered following up the 10th edition of the “New Frontiers of Antitrust” annual Concurrences review Conference held in Paris on June 14th, 2019, at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. The discussions revolved around four topics. The members of the first (...) -
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Restrictive trade practices in the food and retail sector: Is the end near, truly? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, June 14th, 2019)The present contribution was received following up the 10th edition of the “New Frontiers of Antitrust” annual Concurrences review Conference held in Paris on June 14th, 2019, at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. The discussions revolved around four topics. The members of the first (...) -
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Business & Personal data: Should access be shared? Should collection be confined? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, June 14th, 2019)The present contributions were gathered following up the 10th edition of the “New Frontiers of Antitrust” annual Concurrences review Conference held in Paris on June 14th, 2019, at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. The discussions revolved around four topics. The members of the first (...) -
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Opening remarks (The reform of the French Commercial Code’s Title IV Book IV - Nanterre, April 4th, 2019)The rewriting of Title IV of Book IV of the Commercial Code: Much ado about nothing? ---- Daniel Fasquelle Associate University Professor Member, LARJ (Legal Research Laboratory) EA 3603 Vice-Chairman, Economic Affairs Committee, National Assembly, Paris Introduction 1. Rewriting Title IV (...) -
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Reorganisation of the Title IV (The reform of the French Commercial Code’s Title IV Book IV - Nanterre, April 4th, 2019)The significant imbalance, a central figure of unfair commercial practices in the order of 24 April 2019? Martine Behar-Touchais Professor, School of Law, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Institut de recherche juridique de la Sorbonne (IRJS-André Tunc) Former member, Collège du Conseil (...) -
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Unfair practices (The reform of the French Commercial Code’s Title IV Book IV - Nanterre, April 4th, 2019)Price control Vincent Malassigné Professor, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (University Paris-Saclay) Price control in so-called ’commercial’ relations has been strengthened over the last two years and, in particular, following Ordinance No. 2019-359 of 24 April 2019 amending (...) -
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Implementation of the new Title IV (The reform of the French Commercial Code’s Title IV Book IV - Nanterre, April 4th, 2019)The Minister’s action in the implementation of article L. 442-1 C. com. : autonomous action, to what extent? Cyril Grimaldi Professor, University of Paris 13 The action of the Minister of Economy, is often called ’autonomous’. This term does not mean much and, in any case, it must one should (...) -
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Opening remarks (3rd Private Enforcement Conference: The current state of private enforcement in the EU and France - Paris Court of Appeal, March 28th, 2019)Introducing the annual Concurrences Paris conference of March 28, 2019, Mrs. Chantal Arens stressed that the work was in line with the reflection that leads the Paris Court of Appeal with universities and practitioners around future legislative developments. In addition, this conference was (...) -
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Temporal application of the rules for transposing the “damages” directive (3rd Private Enforcement Conference: The current state of private enforcement in the EU and France - Paris Court of Appeal, March 28th, 2019)Damages claims for anticompetitive conduct after the Directive 2014/104/EU: Is it (still) worth talking about a private law remedy? Enrico Camilleri Professor, University of Palermo Directive 2014/2014/EU puts the private law remedy of non-contractual liability as the pivot of the entire (...) -
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Limitation period for actions for damages (3rd Private Enforcement Conference: The current state of private enforcement in the EU and France - Paris Court of Appeal, March 28th, 2019)The transposition of the rules on the limitation period for bringing an action for damages into national law - Comparative remarks Florian Bien Professor, University of Würzburg In its Manfredi and Cogéco judgments on the limitation period for actions for damages for breaches of competition (...) -
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Disclosure and business secrecy (3rd Private Enforcement Conference: The current state of private enforcement in the EU and France - Paris Court of Appeal, March 28th, 2019)Practices of the Commercial Court of Paris with regard to the search for evidence Geneviève Rigolot President, Chamber of Competition, Paris Commercial Court For a long time, the Paris Commercial Court has endeavored to improve the procedures by which a litigant can search for the necessary (...) -
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Injury assessment: Topical issues (3rd Private Enforcement Conference: The current state of private enforcement in the EU and France - Paris Court of Appeal, March 28th, 2019)In search of a way to make up for lost time Aymeric Speech Associate Lawyer, McDermott Will & Emery, Paris While it has long been the prerogative of economists, the issue of compensation for the harmful effects of time is now at the heart of the latest case-law developments in the (...) -
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Case study: ABB/BritNed (3rd Private Enforcement Conference: The current state of private enforcement in the EU and France - Paris Court of Appeal, March 28th, 2019)ABB/BritNed Luís Campos Associate Director, Frontier Economics, Paris/London On 9 October 2018, the High Court of England and Wales issued its judgement on the litigation opposing ABB and BritNed, following a 2004 decision by the European Commission (EC) which found that ABB had participated (...) -
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Conciliation with EU law (The reform of the French Commercial Code’s Title IV Book IV - Nanterre, April 4th, 2019)The Unfair Commercial Practices in the Food Supply Chain Directive Emilie Prouzet European Public Affairs Director, Federation of Commerce and Distribution, Brussels 1. In thirty years, European agriculture has experienced numerous crises, the intensity of which has particularly increased in (...) -
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Expectations of economic operators (The reform of the French Commercial Code’s Title IV Book IV - Nanterre, April 4th, 2019)A round table, moderated by Professor Anne-Sophie Choné-Grimaldi, allowed the representatives of the various links in the sectors to express themselves and discuss the content of the new texts. From upstream to downstream, this roundtable brought together: For the production: Patrick Bénézit, (...) -
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Main challenges in adjudicating competition law cases (9th OECD/Korea Policy Centre Competition Law Seminar for Asia-Pacific Judges - Bangkok, May 30–31st, 2019)Every year the OECD/Korea Policy Centre offers judges in Asia-Pacific an opportunity to discuss competition law and competition economics in order to endow judges in the region with the tools to deal with competition cases in their jurisdictions. 1. The ninth OECD/Korea Policy Centre (...) -
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Opening up rail passenger transport to competition (Nasse Seminar - Paris, 28 June 2020)At the seminar held on 28 June 2019, Marc Ivaldi (economist, director of studies at EHESS, researcher at the Toulouse School of Economics, consultant to NERA Economic Consulting and chairman of the ITEA executive committee) and Adrien Giraud (a partner in the Latham & Watkins antitrust (...) -
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The settlement procedure: Introduction (Rendez-Vous de l’Autorité - Paris, October 2nd, 2018)Three years after the introduction of the settlement procedure into the tools available to the Competition Authority, the Authority was able to witness the success and the very strong development of this procedure, with companies increasingly soliciting its application. Before the adoption of (...) -
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The settlement procedure: Which enforcement in Europe? (Rendez-Vous de l’Autorité - Paris, October 2nd, 2018)Three years after the introduction of the settlement procedure into the tools available to the Competition Authority, the Authority was able to witness the success and the very strong development of this procedure, with companies increasingly soliciting its application. Before the adoption of (...) -
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The settlement procedure: Which enforcement in France? (Rendez-Vous de l’Autorité - Paris, October 2nd, 2018)Three years after the introduction of the settlement procedure into the tools available to the Competition Authority, the Authority was able to witness the success and the very strong development of this procedure, with companies increasingly soliciting its application. Before the adoption of (...) -
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Buyer power and supplier platforms merger: What role for competition authorities? (Paris, 21 Febr. 2019)These articles were collected following the Seminar ’Buyer power and supplier platforms merger: What role for competition authorities?’ organized by Concurrences on 21 February 2019 in Paris. The first contribution focuses on the legislative and jurisprudential difficulties in containing the rise (...) -
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Introduction (10 years of the Anti-Monopoly Law in China - Beijing, 14 July 2018)The article below introduces 9 articles related to the conference "10 years of Anti-Monopoly Law in China" held in Beijing on July 14, 2018 and published in this issue of Concurrences N°4-2018. Introduction Wei Tan Managing Director, Mingde Economic Research Inc., Washington, D.C Hanhong Wu (...) -
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Opening remarks (10 years of the Anti-Monopoly Law in China - Beijing, 14 July 2018)This paper reviews the major achievements since the implementation of China’s antimonopoly policy. The paper demonstrates that the implementation of antimonopoly law promoted the formation of a market system and improvement of market system. The role of China’s anti-monopoly policy in building a (...) -
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Merger control (10 years of the Anti-Monopoly Law in China - Beijing, 14 July 2018)These papers review the use of FRAND commitment as merger remedy and the risks of Un-notified Concentrations in China. The paper looks at the economic meaning of FRAND price after the merger, the potential abuse of FRAND commitment and the implication of these remedies. By the end of this (...) -
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Anti-competitive agreement and abusive conduct (10 years of the Anti-Monopoly Law in China - Beijing, 14 July 2018)Cartels have been an enforcement priority in China since the Anti-Monopoly Law entered into force on 1 August 2008. Notwithstanding this focus on cartel enforcement, the authorities have, over time, expanded into other areas of potential anti-competitive conduct between competitors such as (...) -
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IP and antitrust litigation (10 years of the Anti-Monopoly Law in China - Beijing, 14 July 2018)In April 2017, Beijing High Court issued its Guidelines on the Ruling of Patent Infringements and one year later, Guangdong High Court issued its Guidelines for the Trial of SEP Disputes (for trial implementation) on 26 April 2018. Both of these Guidelines tried to resolve the SEP-related (...) -
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Round table (10 years of the Anti-Monopoly Law in China - Beijing, 14 July 2018)Over the past ten years, China has quickly established itself as one of the world’s three major antitrust regimes alongside the European Union and the United States, impacting international business activities with its active merger control regime, antitrust investigations resulting in (...) -
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Dominance and monopolization: EU vs. US? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, 11 June 2018)These notes discuss why competition law enforcement differs across jurisdictions and consider whether such a divergence is justified. They conclude that it is insofar as differences in policy reflect differences in the underlying economy or differences in policy preferences. But they should be (...) -
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Online distribution: Are the rules now set? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, 11 June 2018)The steady growth of e-commerce continues to change the competitive landscape in which traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers operate. It is undeniable that this rapid growth is putting immense pressure on traditional retailers. Competition policies may have unwittingly accentuated the crisis (...) -
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Urgency in antitrust cases: Always too late? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, 11 June 2018)After an alignment of French rules to European rules, the two sets of rules have evolved differently from one another. The topic is once again at the forefront, following the first Google case, but even more following the ECN+ submission, which stipulates that all NCA must be provided with this (...) -
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Mergers and gun jumping: What are companies actually allowed to do? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, 11 June 2018)Gun jumping has come to the forefront of antitrust enforcement in a number of important jurisdictions, including the European Union and France. A consensus has emerged, particularly regarding infringements resulting from the acquisition of control through shares and voting rights and the central (...) -
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Selective distribution : Evolutions and application to the luxury sector (Nasse Seminar - Paris, 24th May 2018)During the Nasse Seminar organized the 24th of May of 2018, Emmanuel Combe (Vice-president of the Competition authority) and Jérôme Philippe (economist, lawyer at Freshfields Brukhaus Dringer) talked about the selective distribution, its evolution and its application to the luxury sector. The (...) -
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Algorithms and competition (Paris, 6 June 2017)Computer science and digital information have profoundly transformed business. This transformation comes with immense promises but also considerable risks. It is obviously as false to believe in all these promises as to be convinced of the inevitability of all the risks. In this article, we (...) -
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Intellectual property and competitive behaviours in the pharmaceutical industry (Nasse Seminar - Paris, 9th November 2017)During the Nasse Seminar organized the 9th of November of 2017, David Taylar (lawyer ar Clifford Chance) and Laurent Flochel (economist, vice-president du cabinet Charles River Associate) talked about intellectual property and competitive behaviours in the pharmaceutical industry. This seminar (...) -
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Excessive prices (Nasse Seminar - Paris, 27th September 2017)During the Nasse Seminar organized the 27th of September of 2017, Anne Perrot (associate at the consulting firm MAPP) and Jacques-Philippe Gunther (lawyer at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP) talked about excessive prices. The seminar was animed by Etienne Pfister, chief of economic (...) -
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State aid control and tax rulings. Is there really a competition issue? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, 26 June 2017)This article argues that there is no presumption that tax rulings distort competition between firms. Rather, tax rulings should be considered, in the same way as subsidy races, as detrimental to the achievement in the internal market. Finally, we argue that the in the presence of complex (...) -
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Innovation and competition: Are mergers promoting innovation? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, 26 June 2017)The question how mergers affect innovation has gained prominence in a number of recent merger cases. Accounting for the likely effects of mergers on innovation is difficult for a number of reasons, though. First of all, the relationship between market concentration and innovation is far from (...) -
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Competition authorities: Towards more independence and prioritisation? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, 26 June 2017)Independence and transparency go hand by hand and are of the utmost importance for competition authorities. Transparency is a safeguard for independence. Competition authorities must be independent by definition regarding both the public and the private sector. Total independence should be (...)
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