Competition Law Challenges in the Next Decade

Sofia Oliveira Pais is a Professor of EU Law and Competition Law at Católica Porto School of Law, Catholic University of Portugal, where she also directs the PhD Course and the Research Centre for the Future of Law – Porto. She holds a Jean Monnet Chair linked to the project «Current and future challenges of European Integration» and she is the author of several books on European Law and Competition Law.

Content: António Ferreira Gomes: Competition law: achievements and challenges – Sofia Oliveira Pais: Antitrust private enforcement and collective redress in Portugal – Petri Kuoppamäki: Reflections on damage actions - the Asphalt case – Anna Piszcz: Is this really a reform to facilitate follow-on actions for antitrust damages? – Henrique Sousa Antunes: Private enforcement of competition law on trial - two study cases – Agostinho Guedes: Actions for damages under Portuguese Law for infringements of the competition law – Paul Nihoul: Upside down: The EU jurisprudence on aftermarkets – Alison Jones: Distinguishing legitimate price competition from unlawful exclusionary behavior – Rosa Greaves/Svetlana Nasibyan: Exclusionary abuses: refusal to license intellectual property rights – Rita Leandro Vasconcelos: Remedies and Article 102 TFEU – Manuel Fontaine Campos: The evolution of the «effects on trade» and «distortion of competition» requirements under the EU State aid regime – Mariana Tavares: The hard side of soft power - the Portuguese Competition Authority recommendation to the Government on stranded costs in the electricity sector – Isabel Fernández Torres: Competition in the aviation sector: the problem with public financing of airports and airlines – Nuno Castro Marques: The Portuguese Development Financial Institution and State aids.