Faull and Nikpay: The EU Law of Competition

In this third edition, the work includes coverage of the latest legislation, case law and guidance, giving competition lawyers a commentary on recent developments. It includes new material on industries of growing importance in the competition field, including Pharma and High Tech. It also analyses the R&D and Specialisation Block Exemption Regulations, the revised Verticals Block Exemption Regulation, and the Technology Transfer Block Exemption. Key cases covered in this edition include Telefonica, Microsoft, Intel, Rambus, RWE, and GdF.

Contents:

+ I. General Principles
++ 1: Luc Peeperkorn and Vincent Verouden: The Economics of Competition
++ 2: Eddy De Smijter and Ailsa Sinclair: The Enforcement System under Regulation 1/2003
++ 3: Jonathan Faull, Lars Kjølbye, Henning Leupold and Ali Nikpay: Article 101
++ 4: Miguel de la Mano, Renato Nazzini and Hans Zenger: Article 102
++ 5: Claes Bengtsson, Jose Maria Carpi-Badia and Massimilano Kadar: Mergers
++ 6: José Luis Buendia Sierra: Article 106 - Exclusive or Special Rights and Other Anti-Competitive State Measures

+ II. Specific Practices
++ 7: Matthew Bennett, Francisco Enrique Gonzalez Diaz, Henning Leupold, Anna Vernet and Donncadh Woods: Horizontal Co-operation Agreements
++ 8: Antoine Colombani, Jindrich Kloub and Ewoud Sakkers: Cartels
++ 9: Andrei Gurin and Luc Peeperkorn: Vertical Agreements
++ 10: Kevin Coates, Lars Kjølbye and Luc Peeperkorn: Intellectual Property

+ III. Special Sectors
++ 11: Nicholas Banasevic, Stephen Ryan and Rita Wezenbeek: Financial Services
++ 12: Celine Gauer and Lars Kjølbye: Energy
++ 13: Eduardo Martinez Rivero and David Gabathuler: Communications (Telecom and Internet)
++ 14: Krzystof Kuik and Anthony Dawes: Media
++ 15: Hubert De Broca, Marta Mielecka Riga and Anatoly Subocs: Transport
++ 16: Harald Mische, Elena Kamilarova and Dominik Schnichels: Pharma

+ IV. State Aid
++ 17: Claire Micheau, Henri Piffaut and Tim Maxian Rusche and Koen Van de Casteele: State Aid