Sector inquiries: Complements or substitutes for antitrust enforcement? (New Frontiers of Antitrust Conference, 15th February 2010)

Enquêtes sectorielles : Complément ou substitut de l'action des autorités de concurrence ?Introduction générale Frédéric JENNY President, OECD Competition Committee President of the International board of the Review Concurrences Professor, Co-Director of the Centre Européen de Droit et d'Economie, ESSEC, Paris Ladies and gentlemen It gives me great pleasure to open this conference on the “New frontiers of antitrust policy” and to welcome our numerous foreign guests as well as the French lawyers and economists who have joined us. I want to thank Concurrences and Nicholas Charbit for having organized this great gathering. I also want to thank Laurence Idot who shared with me the task of putting this program together. Let me first say, this event inaugurates what aims to be an annual rendez