European Competition Law Annual 1999: Selected Issues in the Field of State Aid (European Competition Law Annual)

The European Competition Law Annual 1999 is fourth in a series of volumes including the materials of the annual Workshops on EU Competition Law and Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University in Florence. The present volume contains the contributions and commentaries of a group of senior EU policy-makers, renowned academics and international legal experts on the subject of State Aid control - a unique and complex feature of EU competition policy, usually little explored and understood. The contributors concentrated on the aspects of EU State Aid policy that were most challenging at the time of the fourth edition of the EUI Competition Workshop (June 1999), as follows: the economic justifications for and effects of State Aids; specific problems arising in the control of State Aids in the banking sector; and the possibilities for a more decentralized control of State Aids in the EU. Half Title Page......Page 1 Title Page......Page 3 Title verso......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of Participants......Page 7 List of Sponsors......Page 9 Table of Cases......Page 11 Table of Treaties and Legislation......Page 15 Table of Abbreviations......Page 19 Introduction......Page 21 Panel One: Justifications for State Aids......Page 43 Opening Statement......Page 45 Panel Discussion......Page 57 Working Papers......Page 89 Pierre Buigues......Page 91 John Fingleton......Page 99 Jordi Gual......Page 119 Anne Houtman......Page 133 Patrick Low......Page 145 Patrick Messerlin......Page 165 Fiorella Padoa-Schioppa Kostoris in Cooperation with Sascia Lubicz......Page 175 Patrick Rey......Page 183 Paul Seabright......Page 191 Fabienne Ilzkovitz, Roderick Meiklejohn and Jan Horst Schmidt......Page 197 Panel Two: Problems Arising from State Aids in the Banking Sector......Page 215 Panel Discussion......Page 217 Working Papers......Page 243 Colin Bamford......Page 245 Jacques Bourgeois......Page 251 Marc Dassesse......Page 269 Charles Ilako......Page 273 Christian Koenig......Page 281 Asger Petersen......Page 297 Gian Michele Roberti......Page 319 Wulf-Henning Roth......Page 333 Mario Sarcinelli......Page 347 Alfonso Papa Malatesta......Page 365 Uwe H. Schneider......Page 401 Michael Schutte......Page 417 Peter Schutterle......Page 435 Romano Subiotto......Page 443 Antoine Winckler......Page 475 Giuseppe Zadra......Page 503 Panel Three: The Prospects for the Decentralisation of EU State Aid Control......Page 509 Panel Discussion......Page 511 Working Papers......Page 545 Alec Bumside......Page 547 Gerardo Carneroli......Page 557 Jonathan Fault......Page 565 Mauro Grande......Page 577 A.J.E. Havermans......Page 595 Walter Hellerstein......Page 619 Gary N. Horlick......Page 635 Matthew Schaefer......Page 647 Tihamer Toth......Page 689 Bibliography......Page 709 Index......Page 721 "The European Competition Law Annual 1999 is fourth in a series of volumes including the materials of the annual Workshops on EU Competition Law and Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University in Florence. The present volume contains the contributions and commentaries of a group of senior EU policy-makers, renowned academics and international legal experts on the subject of State Aid control - a unique and complex feature of EU competition policy, usually little explored and understood. The contributors concentrated on the aspects of EU State Aid policy that were most contentions and challenging at the time of the fourth edition of the EUI Competition Workshop (June 1999), as following: a) the economic justifications for and effects of State Aids, b) specific problems arising in the control of State Aids in the banking sector, and c) the possibilities for a more decentralised control of State Aids in the EU."--Bloomsbury Publishing This volume contains the contributions of a groups of EU policy-makers and international legal experts on the subject of state aid control - a complex feature of EU competition policy In this book leading experts focus on contentious and challenging aspects of EU State Aid policy.