Filippo Amato is currently posted as head of trade and economic section in the EU delegation to Cameroon. Filippo Amato has extensive EC competition law, public enforcement, and litigation experience in various industries, including chemicals, automotive, media, agriculture, sport, and services. Before joining Jones Day, Filippo served for seven years as an official of the European Institutions. While at the European Commission, Filippo worked for more than two years at the Directorate General for Competition, where he dealt with a number of merger and antitrust cases, and for three years at the Commission’s Legal Service, where he advised the Commission on cartel and merger cases and was involved in more than 40 court proceedings before the Court of First Instance and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Between 2002 and 2003 he was seconded to the Court of Justice (at the cabinet of former Advocate General Antonio Tizzano) and during this time was involved with various issues pertaining to the interpretation of European law. Filippo regularly delivers speeches and publishes articles on EC competition law. He graduated from Columbia University (LL.M. 2001) ; College of Europe (LL.M. in EC Law 1998) ; University Institute of European Studies (Postgraduate course in International Trade Law 1996) ; University of Turin (J.D. with honors 1995).
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Following dawn raids on the premises of electric cable manufacturers, the European General Court has partially overturned two EU Commission inspection decisions, finding the scope of inspection to be overreaching in scope. This is the first time that a court has annulled (albeit partially) a (...)
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The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") has adopted new rules of procedure, replacing previous rules that had remained largely untouched since their adoption in 1953. The goal of these changes is to speed up ECJ proceedings, but these new rules may also reduce transparency and undercut parties’ (...)
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I. Introduction By judgment of 29 December 2010, the Consiglio di Stato (Italian Supreme Administrative Court, the « Court ») set aside a decision of 29 July 2004 (the « Decision ») by which the Italian Competition Authority (the « ICA ») had imposed a fine on Tetra Pak International S.A. (« Tetra (...)
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La 5ème conférence annuelle du Global Competition Law Centre, organisée à Bruxelles les 11 et 12 juin 2009, était dédiée à l’étude lancée par la Commission pour la révision du Règlement 1/2003. Les contributions présentées ici sont la synthèse de six groupes de travail : I - Le régime de l’exception légale et (...)
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