A substantial number of cartels in the European Union are detected and enforced by the national competition authorities (NCAs). The effectiveness of domestic enforcement has been subject to extensive review and debates, which have recently culminated and resulted in the proposal for the ECN+...

The policy paper contains written evidence on the effects of Brexit on competition law in the UK submitted by Ioannis Lianos, Deni Mantzari, Florian Wagner von Papp, and Florence Thepot to the EU Internal Market Lords Select Sub-Committee, which was published on the Parliament website.The report...

In a referendum on 23rd June 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) voted for ‘Brexit’, i.e., to leave the European Union (EU). After some delay the government will invoke Article 50 TEU, which would begin a two-year period of negotiation for a withdrawal agreement, after which the EU treaties would...

In this paper we analyse the right to access documents for cartel victims and cartel members. We start with an analysis of the case law from the European Court of Justice and the General Court. The effects of the new Private Enforcement Directive will thereafter be scrutinized. These two...

The rethinking of European Takeover Law is a current challenge as well as an ongoing task. The economic and political landscape has changed considerably since the Directive was enacted, and these changes have had an impact on the evaluation of takeover law with its obvious socio-economic...

This paper deals with access to the file in competition proceedings conducted by the European Commission for the enforcement of Article 101 TFEU and Article 102 TFEU (antitrust proceedings) and under the EU Merger Regulation (merger control proceedings)

Under art.11 Regulation 1/2003, every national competition authority (NCA) of the EU Member States must notify the EU Commission about the opening of formal investigations for a potential infringement of arts 101-102 TFEU and the envisaged decisions in that regard. The enforcement statistics for...