European Competition Law Annual 2000: The Modernisation of Eu Competition Law (European Competition Law Annual)

The European Competition Law Annual 2000 is fifth in a series of volumes following the annual Workshops on EU Competition Law and Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University in Florence. The present volume reproduces the materials of a roundtable debate that took place at the EUI in June 2000 among senior representatives of EU institutions, renowned academics and international legal experts in the field of antitrust on the proposals made by the European Commission for the reform and decentralization of EC antitrust enforcement. The contributions and commentaries included in this volume address in particular the following issues: the compatibility of the Commission's reform proposal with the provisions of the EC Treaty; how to ensure coherence, efficiency and legal certainty in a decentralized system of implementing EC antitrust provisions; and the problems posed by the Commission's reform proposal for the judiciary. This publication is addressed to scholars, legal practitioners and representatives of the business community following the ongoing process of reform of EC antitrust. Half Title Page......Page 1 Title Page......Page 3 Title verso......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of Sponsors......Page 7 Table of Cases......Page 9 Intoduction......Page 15 Panel One: Compatibility, Efficiency, Legal Security......Page 31 Panel Discussion......Page 41 Introductory Statement by Mario Monti......Page 33 Discussion......Page 43 Working Papers......Page 83 Simon Bishop......Page 85 Ulf Boge......Page 97 Ian Forrester......Page 105 Eleanor Fox......Page 153 Barry Hawk and Nathalie Denaeijer......Page 159 Giuliano Marenco......Page 175 Mitsuo Matsushita......Page 227 Petros Mavroidis and Damien Neven......Page 237 Ernst-Joachim Mestmacker......Page 253 Alexander Schaub......Page 271 Giuseppe Tesauro......Page 289 Panel Two: Coherence......Page 299 Panel Discussion......Page 301 Working Papers......Page 343 Christopher Bellamy......Page 345 Jacques Bourgeois......Page 353 Laurence Idot......Page 365 Ulrich Immenga......Page 383 Frederic Jenny......Page 391 Anne Willem Kist and Maria Luisa Tierno Centella......Page 399 Gheorghe Oprescu......Page 417 Emil Paulis......Page 429 James Rill......Page 459 Mario Siragusa......Page 473 James Venit......Page 487 Panel Three: Courts and Judges......Page 505 Panel Discussion......Page 507 Working Papers......Page 549 Carl Baudenbacher......Page 551 Jochen Burrichter......Page 569 John D. Cooke......Page 581 David Edward......Page 595 Dan Goyder......Page 601 Jochem Groning......Page 609 Santiago Martinez Lage and Helmut Brokelmann......Page 623 Anne Spiritus-Dassesse......Page 643 Sarah S. Vance......Page 647 Diane P. Wood......Page 657 Bibliography......Page 669 Index......Page 675 "This edited volume aims to reveal the Janus-faced character of federalism in the European Union. Federalism appears in two main forms in the EU. On the one hand, numerous formerly unitary Member States have embarked on a path towards a (quasi-)federal governance structure. On the other hand, the EU itself is sometimes qualified as a federal system. Significantly, the concept of federalism has a very different, even opposite, connotation in both contexts. When associated with Member State reform, federalism is regarded as a technique for accommodating autonomy claims of sub-state nations. By contrast, when federalism is used as a label for the EU itself, it is conceived as a far-reaching way of integrating the nations of Europe. This dual appearance of federalism in the EU context is central to the structure of the book. The first collection of essays addresses the question whether the EU may be described as a federal system, and whether it can learn from existing federations. In the second set of contributions, the attention shifts to domestic federalisation processes, more particularly to the impact of these processes on EU law and vice versa." -- (provided by publisher) "The European Competition Law Annual 2000 is fifth in a series of volumes following the annual Workshops on EU Competition Law and Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University in Florence. The present volume reproduces the materials of a roundtable debate that took place at the EUI in June 2000 among senior representatives of EU institutions,renowned academics and international legal experts in the field of antitrust on the proposals made by the European Commission for the reform and decentralisation of EC antitrust enforcement. The contributions and commentaries included in this volume address in particular the following issues: a) the compatibility of the Commission's reform proposal with the provisions of the EC Treaty, b) how to ensure coherence, efficiency and legal certainty in a decentralised system of implementing EC antitrust provisions, and c) the problems posed by the Commission's reform proposal for the judiciary. This publication is addressed to scholars, legal practitioners and representatives of the business community following the on-going process of reform of EC antitrust."--Bloomsbury Publishing. The European Competition Law Annual 2000 is fifth in a series of volumes following the annual Workshops on EU Competition Law and Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University in Florence. The present volume reproduces the materials of a roundtable debate that took place at the EUI in June 2000 among senior representatives of EU institutions, renowned academics and international legal experts in the field of antitrust on the proposals made by the European Commission for the reform and decentralisation of EC antitrust enforcement. The contributions and commentaries included The materials of a 2000 debate on the proposals made by the European Commission for the reform and decentralisation of EC antitrust enforcement.