European Competition Forum

Claus Dieter Ehlermann is Professor for Economic Law at the European University Institute in Florence, and a Member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva. In 1961 he joined the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he was Director-General from 1977 to 1987. He served as Spokesman of the Commission from 1987 to 1990, and then as Director-General of the Directorate-General for Competition from 1990 to 1995. He has lectured at the College of Europe in Bruges, at the Free University of Brussels and at the University of Hamburg, where he became Honorary Professor in 1983. His publications focus on European Community law and in particular on institutional and competition law issues. One of his other main areas of interest is deregulation. Laraine L. Laudati is an attorney who has worked extensively as a consultant to the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission, where she was a member of the team which prepared the Green Paper on vertical restraints. She has practised law in Washington DC and is currently completing a PhD thesis at the European University Institute in Florence. She is a specialist in EC competition law and has published numerous studies and articles in this area.

Exclusive distribution: Office of Fair Trading UK; Ministry of Economic Affairs Germany; Irish Competition Authority; Directorate general of Competition and Prices Portugal; Authority for Protection of Competition and the market Italy. Selective distribution: the European Community's stance. Economic dependence.