This practical commentary addresses all aspects of the EC Anti-Dumping regulation and makes extensive comparison with WTO Anti-Dumping Law. Anti-Dumping Law is a branch of EC and WTO law which is of considerable practical and economic relevance. This book is the long-awaited new edition of the 1997 book by the same authors and includes all the changes in that period including relevant Court rulings, the extensive practice by the Council and the Commission of the European Union as well as reports by the WTO Dispute Settlement Panels.

The EC Merger Regulation: Substantive Issues describes comprehensively how the European Commission decides whether to approve a notified merger. This 3rd edition has been fully updated to incorporate developments including the finalisation of the Non-Horizontal Guidelines and new cases, such as Aer Lingus/Ryanair, important vertical cases such as TomTom/TeleAtlas and Nokia/NAVTEQ, and the Sony/BMG decisions and appeals.

This book focuses on the current legal framework for vertical agreements in the EC and the US. Over the last ten years, antitrust rules governing these agreements have undergone thorough reform. In the EC, the old sector-specific block exemptions were replaced by Regulation 2790/99, applicable to all sectors of the economy. In addition, changes introduced to the procedural rules have led to the decentralisation of Article 81(3) and the removal of the notification requirement. In like manner, in the US the Supreme Court has gradually taken vertical restraints out of the per se illegality rule....

The debate over the realm of Article 82 EC has raised important questions as to its past and present application. This collection of essays by international experts explores the changing boundaries of Article 82 EC and considers its recent evolution. The chapters cover a range of subjects, including the legal and economic implications of an effects based approach to Article 82 EC, the recent Commission Guidance on Article 82 EC, the interface between intellectual property rights and competition law, licensing, tying, excessive pricing, and the protection of the consumer interest.

The author focuses on horizontal co-operation between the NCAs of different Member States. She starts by looking at the arrangements for case allocation, discusses the rules on information exchange and also deals with the consultation procedure prior to the adoption of final NCA decisions. The existing rules are assessed not only in the light of their purpose, ensuring efficiency and consistency in the application of the law, but also reviewed against the requirements of the EU Charter and the European Convention on Human Rights.

This volume of EC competition law materials serves both as the Materials volume of the Sixth Edition of Bellamy & Child: European Community Law of Competition, and as a free-standing work of reference in its own right. It includes legislation, notices and guidelines relevant to all areas of EC competition law (including Treaty provisions, modernisation and procedural matters, substantive antitrust matters, mergers and concentrations, sectoral regimes, public undertakings and State aids). It provides a one-stop resource for competition and antitrust practitioners worldwide.

Piet Jan Slot is one of a notable group of innovators who have greatly elucidated the role of law in the construction of European integration. His retirement this year from the Law Faculty at Leiden University has occasioned this festschrift, in which forty-six colleagues, past and present, recognize his many sterling contributions and engage with issues central to his work. Many of them focus on aspects of European competition law, while others extend his preoccupations with such fields as environmental regulation, energy, transport, and the interfaces of European law with both Member State law and international (global) law.

No branch of European law has been as subject to expansion and change as competition law. Between the enormous forces of globalization, technology, and EU enlargement, the Commission and national competition authorities have been compelled to keep rethinking their practices and procedures and issuing new regulations.
Now, in the wake of its highly acclaimed predecessors, the new 3rd edition of European Competition Law offers the practitioner everything required to act in accordance with the latest developments in the field. ...

Now in its 5th edition, this well-respected work provides a comprehensive analysis of the EC merger control regime. The book examines the impact of legislative and procedural changes made in 2004 on the subsequent casework and procedures of the Commission and the workings of the European Competition Network in the merger control context.
In particular, it describes the evolution and maturing of the EC merger control regime from its inception in 1989, highlighting its main substantive and procedural features. ...

This book brings together six essays which analyse from both a legal and an economic perspective the powers of investigation of the European Commission and the competition authorities of the Member States, and the corresponding procedural rights and guarantees, the use of settlements, the theory and practice of fines and of leniency, and the criminalization of European antitrust enforcement.

This book analyses the EC competition rules applicable to vertical agreements, including Regulation 2790/99 (the general block exemption applicable to vertical agreements), Regulation 1400/2002 (the motor vehicle block exemption) and also vertical agreements not covered by a block exemption. The book includes informal guidance obtained from DG Competition.

This new edition is the English version of a German-language work from the same General Editors as the well-known German series of Münchner Kommentare ('Munich Commentaries'). It contains an article-by-article commentary of the main legal texts in European competition law. Articles 81-86 EC, as well the provisions of Reg. 1 / 2003 and the EC merger regulation are commented upon individually. Every section includes an explanation of the law in its historic and systematic context and includes extensive references to the decisions and practice of the European Commission and the EU Courts.

The thesis of this now-classic work - that the European Commission and the Community Courts, under the necessity of forging an effective competition policy, created an entire new school of thought in economic theory that permeates the disciplinary boundary between law and economics - has been gaining ground among competition law practitioners and their government counterparts over the last decade. Now, in the book's third edition, the author explores the full spectrum of this development in detail, uncovering its multiple rationales as it has gradually formulated the legal principles of 'competition economics' that have come to underlie all matters related to Article 81 (1), Article 81 (3), Article 82, the Merger Regulation, and the State Aid provisions.