Ingrid Breit is team leader IT policy development (Digital Criminal Justice) at the European Commission in the DG JUSTICE. Ingrid Breit previously worked with the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission. During her first six years she worked in the former cartels unit. In 2005 she shifted to the directorate for policy and strategy, working as policy and legal advisor on major policy projects of the European Commission in the competition field (e.g. Commission Notice on Best Practices in antitrust proceedings, Reforms of the Hearing officer’s mandate). Prior to joining DG Competition, she worked as a référendaire at the General Court in Luxembourg. Before that, she was advisor in the legal department of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She holds a degree in law from the University in Vienna (1992), an LLM in European Law from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (1994), and a PhD (1996) from the University in Vienna.
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"Regulation 1/2003 : How has this landmark reform worked in practice ?"* I. Introduction The entry into force of Council Regulation 1/2003 on 1 May 2004 ushered in the most comprehensive reform of procedures to enforce Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty since 1962. Regulation 1/2003 (...)
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"The ‘Pre-insulated pipes’ judgment : the European Court of Justice confirms the legality of the Commission’s Guidelines on fines"* Introduction On 28 June 2005 the Court of Justice confirmed in substance the decision of the European Commission of 21 October 1998 concerning a cartel on the (...)
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"Commission fines eight companies in graphite electrode cartel"* On 18 July 2001 the Commission fined Germany’s SGL Carbon AG, UCAR International of the United States and six other companies a total of € 218.8 million for fixing the prices and sharing the market for graphite electrodes. This (...)
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Since 2004, EU competition law has a central place in the competition enforcement practice of the Member States’ competition authorities. At the same time, the Member States’ competition authorities, as well as the review courts that exercise judicial control over their action, make an increasing (...)
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