European Competition Law Annual 2007

Claus-Dieter Ehlermann is Senior Counsel with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP in Brussels, former Professor of EC Law at the European University Institute in Florence, and former Director General in both the Competition Directorate and Legal Service of the European Commission. Mel Marquis teaches competition law and European Community law at the University of Verona. He also teaches regularly as a guest instructor at universities in Italy and elsewhere. He is an editor on the board of Mercato Concorrenza Regole and he has practiced as an attorney in the United States and Belgium.

Panel I John Fingleton (OFT) The objectives of competition policy: protecting consumers, protecting the competitive process, fostering efficiency? Efficiency versus fairness: how relevant remains ordo-liberalism? David Gerber (Chicago-Kent College of Law), Jorge Padilla (LECG) Commentator: Daniel Zimmer (U. Bonn) Parallels and differences in the attitudes towards and rules regarding market power: what are the reasons? Eleanor Fox (NYU), Heike Schweitzer (EUI) Commentator: Jim Venit (Skadden) John Fingleton (OFT) A reformed approach to Article 82 and the US practice: an overall appreciation David Meyer (DOJ), John Vickers (Oxford U.) A reformed approach to Article 82: the impact on private enforcement Jochen Burrichter (Hengeler) Panel III Heike Schweitzer (EUI) Appreciability: when can it be said that a rebate programme causes significant anticompetitive foreclosure? Simon Bishop (RBB), Einer Elhauge (Harvard U.) Commentator: Rafael Allendesalazar (Martinez Lage) A reformed approach to exclusionary conduct Damien Neven (DG Competition), Robert O'Donoghue (Brick Court Chambers) Giuliano Amato (EUI) Efficiency and anticompetitive effects of tying Andrea Coscelli (CRA), Frederic Jenny (Cour de cassation, ESSEC and OFT) What is the right test for exclusive dealing? Patrick Rey (U. Toulouse), Doug Melamed (WilmerHale), Commentator: Cal Goldman (Blake, Cassels and Graydon) Panel V Massimo Motta (EUI), Exploitative conduct Emil Paulis (DG Competition), Commentator: Lars-Hendrik Roller (ESMT) The interface between regulation, antitrust and consumer protection legislation. Remedies: is price regulation the answer? Amelia Fletcher (OFT), Ian Forrester (White and Case) Commentator: William Blumenthal (FTC) Panel VI Massimo Motta (EUI), Excessive prices in energy markets Martin Hellwig (Max Planck Institute - Bonn), Marc van der Woude (Stibbe), Commentator: Mario Siragusa (Cleary) The (complex) relationship between Article 82 (a) and IP law Pierre Regibeau (U. Essex ), Damien Geradin (U. Tilburg and Howrey), Commentator: Mark Patterson (EUI and Fordham U.) Overall Conclusions