The paper is an inquiry into the possibile forms of relevance of WTO law before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance of the European Communities. It is a study on the differences and similarities between the judicial implementation of international law and that of WTO law before...

Competition law and rules on compulsory licensing are considered as indispensable instruments to balance patent rights. In this article, we examine the room for using such balancing instruments in the context of the UPC. We analyse whether the balancing instruments will remain applicable to...

European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the control of public monopolies. As with other sectors such as telecommunications, air transport, electricity, gas, and rail, the postal sector has succumbed to the wave of...

The debate about the economic power of large tech firms has led to the insight that due to the key role of personal data on large digital platforms competition and privacy issues are deeply intertwined. This leads also to a complex relationship between competition law and data protection (or...

This paper critically assess the impact of EU legislation that makes sustainability efforts for companies mandatory on the efforts under EU competition law to support the EU Green Deal Agenda. It can be considered as a starting point in trying to reconcile two trends: the sustainability turn in...

Currently, a de facto global antitrust system, constructed on the basis of emulation of the converging U.S.-E.U. anti-trust/competition law regime is anchoring global laws about unfair business practices as to price fixing and production quotas, inter alia. This de facto system is not yet based...