More details on the Commission’s competition competition + conferences
My inactivity on the blog this week has to do with a couple of Court deadlines and me finding my way through the intrincacies of fiscal rules, telecomm technicalities and trading jargon on different matters (ah, the renacentist life of the competition lawyer…). I’ll try to compensate for my non-posting guilt feeling with some advertising:
-Given that our previous post on the Commission’s new initiative for recruiting competition specialists seems to have attracted quite some interest, we thought that you would also be interested in the information published today regarding all details of the competition competition; if so, you can read all about it here.
-Many experts on EU Competition Procedure will be gathering in Brussels on 6-7 November at the Global Competition Law Centre’s 10th annual conference titled “10 years of Regulation 1/2003: challenges and reform“. The programme and all registration info are available here.
– The 9th Junior Competition Conference -set up by the editors of the Competition Law Journal and which we have always supported and gladly advertised- will be taking place on Friday 6 February 2015. It will have two themes: (1) The New Frontier: Competition Law and the Financial Services Sector; and (2) Control of Unilateral Conduct and the ‘Goldilocks’ Dilemma: Too Much, Too Little or Just Right? For details of the Call for Speakers, please visit this web page. If you would like to speak at the conference, please contact the organizers at competitionlawjournal@gmail.com by 21 November 2014 with an expression of interest and a short outline of your proposed topic.
Chillin'Competition 
Madrid Competition Conference Thurs/Fri 27/28 November – CNMC
Anyone interested in assisting to a Competition Conference and having a perfect excuse to visit Madrid, there will be a conference on the Fight Against Hard Core Cartels at the Spanish Competition Authority on Thurs/Fri 27/28 November.
I will speak at the conference on Damages: Thorny issues for National Courts despite the EU Anti-trust Damages Directive.
Free admission based on availability. Compulsory registration at idee@ceu.es
More info at http://www.idee.ceu.es
Phone: +34 91 514 04 22
Programme:
Thursday, 27th November
09:00 – 09:30 Opening Session
José María Beneyto
Director of the Institute for European Studies –
CEU San Pablo University
Jerónimo Maíllo
Coordinator of the Centre for Competition Policy at the Institute for European Studies – CEU San Pablo University
Opening speech by
Eduardo Prieto
Director of Competition, Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia, Spain
09:30 – 11:00 Introductory Panel: National Competition Authorities. Leniency Program´s Implementation and other key issues in some Relevant Jurisdictions
Göran Karreskog
Konkurrensverket, Sweden
Juliane Schulze Wehninck
Bundeskartellamt, Germany
Pablo Amador Sánchez
Autoriteit Consument & Markt, The Netherlands
Isabel López Gálvez
Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia, Spain
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12.45 Panel I: Institutional Design and Cartel Prosecution
Screening of Competition Authorities: Prosecutorial and Non Prosecutorial Systems and the fight against cartels
Marianela López-Galdós
George Washington University, Competition Law Center,
Washington D.C. (USA)
Integrating Regulatory and Antitrust Powers: Impact on the fight against cartels
Juan Delgado
Director Global Economic Group, Madrid (Spain)
The Principle of Interdiction of Double Jeopardy on cartel cases
María Pilar Canedo
Autoridad Vasca de la Competencia, Bilbao (Spain)
12:45 – 14:00 Panel II: Public Prosecution: Which Type of Sanctions?
Sanctioning Hard Core Cartel Infringements in EU Competition Law: Towards a more compliance-driven approach
Aaron Khan
Cardiff Law School,
Cardiff (United Kingdom)
How (not) to Design a Criminal Cartel Offence: Learning from the UK experience
Peter Whelan
University of Leeds,
Leeds (United Kingdom)
The German Experience
Daniel Zimmer
Institut für Handels und Wirtschaftsrecht – Universität Bonn,
Bonn (Germany)
14:00 – 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:45 Panel III: Fines and Evidence
Calculating Fines: Practical problems
Alberto Escudero
Baker & Mckenzie,
Madrid (Spain)
The Judicial Review of the Spanish Competition Authority’s resolutions and its Effect on Fine Deterrence
Javier García Verdugo
Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y de la Competencia,
Madrid (Spain)
Evidence in Cartel Cases
Anna Balcells,
Garrigues,
Madrid (Spain)
16:45 – 17:15 Coffee Break
17:15 – 18:30 Panel IV: Damages in Cartel Cases
Lessons from the Damages’ Claims in the Spanish Sugar Cartel
Francisco Marcos
IE Business School,
Madrid (Spain)
Thorny Issues for National Courts despite the EU Anti-trust Damages Directive
Evelyn Ameye
Freelance Anti-Trust Expert (EU & Spain), Madrid (Spain)
Class Actions to Claim Antitrust Damages
Pablo Gutiérrez de Cabiedes
CEU San Pablo University,
Madrid (Spain)
Friday, 28th November
09:00 – 10:00 Panel V: Settlements
Eric Van Ginderachter
Director of the Cartels Directorate of DG. Competition of the European Commission Brussels (Belgium)
Jean-François Bellis
Partner, Van Bael & Bellis – Professor at ULB
Brussels (Belgium)
10:00 – 11:00 Panel VI: Key Issues on Leniency
Leniency (Amnesty) Plus: A building block or a trojan Horse?
Marek Martyniszyn
Queen’s University,
Belfast (United Kingdom)
Leniency Programs and the Problematic Use of Confidential Information
Javier Guillen
Rey Juan Carlos University,
Madrid (Spain)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Panel VII: Judicial Review in Cartel Cases: the European experience
Santiago Soldevila
Former Judge at the General Court, ECJ, Luxembourg- Magistrado Audiencia Nacional, Madrid
Georges Valindas
General Court – ECJ, Luxembourg
Eléonore von Bardeleben
General Court – ECJ, Luxembourg
13:00 – 13:30 Closing Session
José María Marín Quemada
President of the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia
José María Beneyto
Director of the Institute for European Studies – CEU San Pablo University
Jerónimo Maíllo
Coordinator of the Centre for Competition Policy at the Institute for European Studies – CEU San Pablo University
Evelyne Ameye
7 November 2014 at 4:13 pm