Ten Years of the Effects-Based Approach in EU Competition Law: State of play and Perspectives

27 & 28 October 2011

The GCLC is pleased to announce its forthcoming Seventh Annual Conference. The 2011 edition - devoted to the Effects-Based Approach - will cover the following topics:

• HISTORY AND STATE OF PLAY: Scope of the Effects-Based Approach in Antitrust and Merger Control
• STRIKING THE BALANCE RIGHT: Anticompetitive Effects vs. Object under Article 101 and 102 TFEU
• UNDERSTANDING THE ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: Theories of Harm, Evidence, Causality and Defences
• GAUGING THE IMPACT OF THE EFFECTS-BASED APPROACH ON:
  • Courts dealing with economic analysis and evidence;
  • Competition Authorities in selecting, managing and deciding cases;
  • Companies and their Counsels in search of legal certainty and compliance.

Speakers include:

Bill ALLAN (U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal), Jean-Yves ART (Microsoft), Jacques BOURGEOIS (WilmerHale), Paul DEMARET (College of Europe), Nicholas FORWOOD (General Court of the European Union), Damien GERADIN (Covington & Burling), Damien GÉRARD (University of Louvain), Enrique GONZALEZ DIAZ (Cleary Gottlieb), Kai-Uwe KÜHN (DG COMP), Miguel DE LA MANO (DG COMP), Arjen MEIJ (Former Judge at the General Court of the European Union), Massimo MEROLA (Bonelli Erede Pappalardo), Eric MORGAN DE RIVERY (Jones Day), Anne PERROT (French Competition Authority), Nicolas PETIT (Liège University), Jose RIVAS (Bird & Bird), Ekaterina ROUSSEVA (DG COMP), Donald SLATER (Ashurst), Denis WAELBROECK (Ashurst), Mike WALKER (CRA).

Presentations

• The Interplay of Law and Economics after Ten Years of the Effects-Based Approach by Kai-Uwe KÜHN, Chief Economist, DG Competition
• The effects-based approach under Article 101 TFUE and its paradoxes by Damien GÉRARD, University of Louvain (UCL)
• The Effects-Based Approach under Article 102 TFEU - History and State of Play by Bill ALLAN, Competition Appeal Tribunal
• The Scope of object v. effect under Article 101 TFEU by Denis WAELBROECK, College of Europe and Ashurst & Donald Slater, Ashurst
• Theories of harm by Hans ZENGER, Charles River Associates
• The Counterfactual Method in EU Competition Law by Damien GERADIN, College of Europe and Covington & Burling
• Dealing with the Evidence by Miguel DE LA MANO, DG Competition, Chief Economist Team
• Reflections on the relevance of efficiency defences in modern EU antitrust law by Ekaterina ROUSSEVA, DG Competition, Policy Coordinator
• The Challenge of Managing and Deciding Cases by Anne PERROT, Vice-President, French Competition Authority
• The Quest of Legal Certainty by Jean-Yves ART, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft

For more information, please send an email to: info.gclc@coleurope.eu