- The leading practitioner work in EU competition law, acclaimed for its precise and authoritative statement of legal concepts and extensive citation of legislation, case law, and decisional practice
Detailed coverage of all key areas including Articles 101, 102, and 106, merger control, State aids, intellectual property, sectoral regimes, and remedies
Expanded reference to decisions and judgments of national competition authorities (NCAs) and national courts
Fully updated in its eighth edition, this is the essential resource for all EU competition lawyers
New to this Edition:
- Analysis of new competition case law from the General Court and Court of Justice, particularly jurisprudence relating to essential concepts within Articles 101 and 102 TFEU.
Coverage of the EU Damages Directive and the European Commission recommendations on collective redress, with a focus on the growth of private enforcement.
Evaluation of settlement decisions following the Commission's adoption of a settlement procedure for cartel cases.
Discussion of the EU's revised regime for transfer technology agreements.
Table of Contents
1: EU Competition Law and its Territorial Reach, David Bailey
2: Article 101(1), David Bailey
3: Article 101(3), George Lusty & Saskia King
4: Market Definition, Philip Woolfe & Julianne Kerr Morrison
5: Cartels, Frances Barr
6: Non-Covert Horizontal Cooperation, James Aitken & Alastair Chapman
7: Vertical Agreements Affecting Distribution or Supply, Rob Williams & Ben Lask
8: Merger Control, John Boyce & Anna Lyle-Smythe
9: Intellectual Property Rights, Oke Odudu
10: Article 102, Rhodri Thompson QC, Christopher Brown, Nicholas Gibson
11: The Competition Rules and the Acts of Member States, Josh Holmes QC & David Gregory
12: Sectoral Regimes, Stephen Hurley, Ligia Osepciu, Robert Wells, Fabio Falconi, Manish Das
13: Enforcement and Procedure, Tim Ward QC, James Bourke, Milan Kristof
14: Fines for Substantive Infringements, Anthony Dawes & Josephine Norris
15: The Enforcement of the Competition Rules by National Competition Authorities, Ben Rayment & Nikolaus Grubeck
16: Litigating Infringements in the National Courts, Jon Turner QC, Anneli Howard, Michael Armitage
17: State Aids, George Peretz QC & Daisy Mackersie
