European Competition Law Annual 2010

Philip Lowe is Director General of DG Energy of the European Commission. He was Director General of DG Competition 2002 to 2010. Mel Marquis is Part-time Professor of Law at the European University Institute and Professore a contratto at the University of Verona. He is an editor on the board of Mercato Concorrenza Regole and he has practised as an attorney in the United States and Belgium.

List of Sponsors
List of Participants
Introduction – Regulating Mergers: Substantive and Procedural Issues, Judicial Review, International Convergence and Best Practices
Mel Marquis
Introduction to the Workshop
Presentation
Written contribution
Irwin Stelzer, Merger Policy and Schumpeter's Creative and Destructive Gale
Panel 1
Merger enforcement across jurisdictions: Substantive issues (market definition, entry barriers/potential competition, unilateral/coordinated
effects, innovation, efficiencies)
Written contributions to Panel
Kirsten Edwards, Estimating Diversion Ratios: Some Thoughts on Customer Survey Design
C. Scott Hemphill, Higher Profits as a Merger Defense: Innovation, Appropriability and the Horizontal Merger Guidelines
Barry Hawk, A Tale of Two Cities: Washington and Brussels Face the Courts
Lars-Hendrik Röller, Efficiencies in EU Merger Control: Do They Matter?
Panel 2
Merger policy assessment and judicial review
Written contributions to Panel 2
Tomaso Duso, Klaus Gugler and Florian Szücs, Merger Policy Evaluation: Where Do We Stand?
James S. Venit, The Scope of EU Judicial Review of Commission Merger Decisions
Panel 3
Merger enforcement across jurisdictions: Procedural issues
Written contributions to Panel 3
Sven Völcker, Dare to Defer? Towards Greater Procedural Efficiency in Multijurisdictional Merger Remedies
Ian S. Forrester, Post Plures Unum: Streamlining and Simplifying Merger Procedures in an Era of Multijurisdictional Merger Filings
Calvin S. Goldman, Contemporary US-Canada Crossborder Merger Review: Tradeoffs in Policy Objectives between Harmonization, Simplification and Accountability
Panel 4
International convergence: Substantive and procedural issues and the scope for comity
Written contributions to Panel 4
Andreas Mundt and Andreas Bardong, Comity, Cooperation and International Convergence – Recent Developments in German Merger Control
Thomas Deisenhofer, International Cooperation in Merger Cases – An EU Practitioner's Perspective
Rachel Brandenburger, Promoting International Convergence: Substantive and Procedural Challenges – the Scope for Comity
William Kovacic, International Convergence: Assessing the Quality of Horizontal Merger Enforcement
Adam Fanaki, Convergence in Multi-Jurisdictional Merger Reviews: A Canadian Perspective
Tadashi Shiraishi, Effects on Domestic Purchasers: A Descriptive Theory for Competition Law in Cross-Border Cases
Etsuko Kameoka and Mel Marquis, Recent Developments in Japan's Merger Control System
Seonhoong Jeon, International Convergence and Recent Korean Experiences in Merger Control
Xinzhu Zhang and Vanessa Yanhua Zhang, China's Merger Control Policy: A Three-Year Milestone
Abel Mateus, The New Brazilian Merger Control Regime
Maher Dabbah, Merger Control in Middle Eastern Countries: A Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities
Panel 5
Merger control and best practices
Written contributions to Panel 5
John Boyce, Best Practice in Merger Control: It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It … And That's What Gets Results
Jochen Burrichter and Manuel Zandt, Merger Control and Best Practice
Götz Drauz, Promoting Best Practices within and among Competition Authorities and with Business