Current Workshop
Due Process and Innovation in EU Competition Law
The 15th CLaSF Workshop
Friday April 16 2009, CEPS, Place du Congres, Brussels, B-1000. Belgium.
If you are interested in attending please contact the CLaSF Vice-Chair, Prof Barry Rodger <vicechair@clasf.org>. If attending please let Prof Rodger know if you will be staying on for the post workshop drinks and dinner.
Programme
8:45 - 9:15 Registration
9:15 - 10:00
Introduction and Keynote Speaker
Prof Wouter Wils, Legal Service of the European Commission & Visiting Professor, Kings College, London.
10:00 - 11:00
Introductory Session - Human Rights in the Competition Law Context
Human Rights and EU Antitrust Enforcement: News From Lisbon
Wolfgang Weiss, Oxford Brookes University
ECHR Implications in EU Competition Enforcement
Lyubmoir Talev, Attorney-at-Law, Varadinov & Co, Sofia, Bulgaria.
11:30 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 12:45
Evidence and Due Process Questions in EU Competition Procedure
Evidence in Cartel EU Competition Law Enforcement: reconciling 'effective enforcement' and 'adequate protection of procedural guarantees'
Andreas Scordamaglia, PHD student, EUI, Florence
The Hearing Officer in EU Competition Proceedings: Ensuring Full respect for the Right to be Heard?’
Nicolo Zingales, PHD student, Bocconi University, Milan
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 15:00
Fining Policy
The Deterrent Effect of Antitrust Sanctions: Economic Theory and Empirical Evidence
Kai Huschelrath, Centre for European Economic Research(ZEW), Department of Industrial Economics/International Management, Mannheim
New Paradigm for Assessing Antitrust Fines - finding room for justice
Abayomi Al Ameen, PHD student, Swansea Law School
15:00-16:00
Competition Enforcement and Criminalisation
Due Process, criminal prosecution of a cartel offence and the risk of hindering co-operation between competition authorities
Julian Nowag, Doctoral student, Oxford University
Criminalisation of EU Competition Law enforcement- a possibility after Lisbon?
Gurgen Hakopian, PHD student, Radboud University, Nijmegen
16:00 - 16:30 Afternoon coffee/tea
16:30 - 18:00
Due Process in Competition Law: A National Perspective
Criminalising Cartels in Greece: A tale of Hasty developments and Shaky Grounds
Maria Ioannidou and Vasiliki Brisimi, DPhil candidates, Oxford University
Leniency, Fines and Procedure Under Serbia’s New Competition Law: Europeanisation versus Fundamental Rights?
Dr Veljko Milutinovic, Serbia
A Comparison of the European Commission’s and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (RF) powers and procedures and the ECHR after the Lisbon Treaty with amendments to the law on competition of RF
Lucyna Olejarz, London
6.00 Close of Meeting and Concluding Comments
Post-workshop drinks/dinner, TBA
