This paper sets out personal reflections on the role of the judiciary within a primarily administrative system of enforcement of the competition laws.

Article 229EC provides that the Community Courts may, by Regulation, be given unlimited jurisdiction as regards sanctions decided under the Regulation in question.

In order for the Commission to adhere to its stated aim of giving a "high priority to due process and fairness in antitrust proceedings," the document should not principally be an enumeration of existing practices but should indeed put in place truly "best" practices in antitrust enforcement. Bo...