In this issue:
Welcome to the home page of The CPI Antitrust Chronicle (formerly GCP Magazine). In this issue, we’re taking a look ahead. The EU has both a new treaty, new Commission, and new faces at DG Comp. We asked a number of people to take a look into their crystal ball and give us an indication of what they might see.
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The New EU: Looking Forward
Developments in Private Enforcement of Italian Antitrust Law: The Introduction of “Class Action” Legislation
As from January 1, 2010, a new procedural tool for the protection of consumers, the class action, is now available in the Italian legal system.
Continuity and Change in EU Competition Policy
The interesting question is whether this change of persons, numbers, adjectives, and nouns extends also to the substance of EU competition law and policy, as formulated and applied by the European Commission and the EU Courts.
EU Competition Law in 2010: Change or Continuity
The Lisbon Treaty and the new Commission should not lead to major changes in the implementation of EU competition law, unless what has been regarded on the part of certain governments as an attempt to use the crisis to promote an intergovernmental approach instead of an integrated Commission leadership prevails.
A New Treaty, A New Commissioner, A New Competition Policy?
Knowing that recent EU institutional developments have taken place in the context of a major economic crisis, the discussion below examines whether and how they could impact the EU’s competition law and policy.
A Review of the Competition Law Implications of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
Was the Lisbon Treaty primarily only remotely concerned with the practice of competition law?
Nine Modest Suggestions for the New EU Commissioner for Competition
it is clear that Commissioner Almunia and his team face a number of important (policy) issues in the next period in addition to the already ambitious agenda item to simply continue enforcing the competition rules.
