Faull & Nikpay: The EU law of competition. 3rd ed.

This leading work provides a unique perspective on EU competition law, authored by current and former members of DG Competition of the European Commission, and giving insider knowledge into policies and their application.

Fully updated in this third edition, the work includes new material on industries of growing importance in the competition field including pharmaceuticals and High Tech. A new chapter on pharmaceuticals and health care gives analysis of the pharmaceuticals sector enquiry report, the ECJ judgment in GSK, the Servier investigation, and various mergers. Coverage of the developing High Tech industry is covered in an expanded chapter on Communications.

Other updating includes full coverage of the latest legislation, case law and guidance, giving competition lawyers a comprehensive commentary on recent developments. Discussion of key legislative developments looks at the R&D and Specialisation Block Exemption Regulations, the revised Verticals Block Exemption Regulation, and the Technology Transfer Block Exemption. Since the last edition of Faull and Nikpay, there has been a wealth of new guidance published which is fully covered in the third edition including Guidance on Hearing Officer procedures, Commission guidance on enforcement priorities for exclusionary conduct, non-horizontal mergers guidelines, Horizontal agreements guidelines, Verticals guidelines, and Commission Guidelines on Technology Transfer. Also, key recent cases covered in the new edition include Telefonica, Microsoft, Intel, Rambus, RWE, and GdF.

Readership: Practitioners dealing with competition (antitrust), business and EU law; competition and trade authorities; practitioners and regulators in key sectors such as telecommunications, financial services, intellectual property and transport; academics specialising in competition (antitrust), business and EU law; in each case, throughout Europe and worldwide.

Table of contents
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, Ali Nikpay and Henning Leupold: Article 101
4: Miguel de la Mano, Hans Zenger and Renato Nazzini: Article 102
5: Thomas Deisenhofer, Claes Bengtsson and Jose Maria Carpi-Badia: Mergers
6: Jose Luis Buendia Sierra: Article 106 - Exclusive Rights and Other Anti-competitive State Measures
7: Donncadh Woods, Henning Leupold, Anna Emanuelson, and Francisco Enrique Gonzalez Diaz: Horizontal Agreements
8: Ewoud Sakkers, Jindrich Kloub and Antoine Colombani: Cartels
9: Luc Peeperkorn and Andrei Gurin: Vertical Agreements
10: Kevin Coates, Lars Kjoelbye and Luc Peeperkorn: Intellectual Property
11: Steve Ryan, Rita Wezenbeek and Silke Obst: Financial Services
12: Lars Kjoelbye and Celine Gauer: Energy
13: Kevin Coates, Sophie Moonen, Krzysztof Kuik, and Eduardo Martinez Rivero: Communications (Including High Tech Industries)
14: Linsey McCallum and Hubert De Broca: Transport
15: Henri Piffaut, Claire Micheau, Koen Van de Casteele, and Tim Maxian Rusche: State Aid
16: Dominik Schnichels, Elena Kamilarova and Harald Mische: Pharma

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