Global Competition Law Centre
The Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) is a research centre of the College of Europe. It was founded on 1 January 2004, aims to promote rigorous legal and economic analysis of competition policy reforms in the EU and globally, and to provide a discussion forum for academics, practitioners, and enforcement officers in the competition field.
Lunch talks
Forty-Second Lunch Talk: Recent trends in the Commission’s Review of Airline Mergers, on 26 November 2009.
Speakers:
Daniel Boeshertz, European Commission DG COMP and Sven Voelcker, Partner, WilmerHale
» Slides now available
Forty-First Lunch Talk: State Aid and Financial Crisis – The Application of the Principles of Restructuring Aid in Systemic Crisis Situations, on 5 November 2009.
Speakers:
Christian Ahlborn, Partner, Linklaters and Christina Caffarra, Vice-president, CRA
» Slides now available
Fortieth Lunch Talk: The Commission’s Review of the Rules applicable to Vertical Agreements, on 18 September 2009.
Speakers:
Claude Rakovsky, Head of Unit, DG COMP and Stephen Kinsella, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
» Slides now available
Thirtynineth Lunch Talk: The Commission’s State Aid Policy and the Current Financial Crisis, on 20 February 2009.
Speakers:
Blanca Rodriguez Galindo, Head of Unit, DG COMP Jacques Derenne, Partner, Lovells
» Slides now available
Thirtyeigth Lunch Talk: Pricing abuses following the Commission’s Guidance on Article 82 EC, on 29 January 2009.
Speakers:
Damien Geradin, Partner, Howrey LLP, Professor, University of Tilburg (UvT); John Temple Lang, Consultant, Cleary Gottlieb
» Details and registration
Thirtyseventh Lunch Talk: The ECJ Judgment in the GSK case, on 18 December 2008.
Speakers:
Ian Forrester, Partner, White & Case LLP; José Luis Buendía Sierra, Partner, Garrigues
»
Slides now available
Thirtysixth Lunch Talk: State aid and Airports – Recent Developments in EC Competition Law, on 24 October 2008.
Speakers:
Anne Houtman, Director, European Commission; Ulrich Soltész, Partner, Gleiss Lutz
»
Slides now available
Thirtyfifth Lunch Talk: Information Exchange Agreements under EC Competition Law, on 6 october 2008.
Speakers:
Bernd Meyring, Linklaters; Matthias Pflanz, CRA International
»
Slides now available
Conference
Fifth annual conference of the Global Competition Law Centre: the Commission's review of regulation 1/2003, 11-12 June 2009, Hilton Hotel, Boulevard de Waterloo 38, 1000 Brussels
» details
Publications
GCLC Working Paper 03/09:
Evaluating Vertical Mergers Post Non-Horizontal Guidelines: An Economics-Based Approach?, by Álvaro Ramos, Tricia Mohan and Francesco Carloni.
» Download Working Paper [277 KB PDF file]
GCLC Working Paper 02/09:
Limiting Anti-Competitive Government Interventions That Benefit Special Interests, by Daniel Sokol.
» Download Working Paper [615 KB PDF file]
GCLC Working Paper 01/09:
Les stratégies juridiques en droit des coordinations entre entreprises – Une approche scénarisée, by Nicolas Petit.
» Download Working Paper [375 KB PDF file]
GCLC Working Paper 04/08:
Competition law proceedings before the European Commission and the right to a fair trial: no need for reform?, by Donald Slater, Sébastien Thomas and Denis Waelbroeck.
» Download Working Paper [481 KB PDF file]
GCLC Press Release 09/08:
Comments on Consultation on the Functioning of Regulation 1/2003.
» Press release
GCLC Research Papers on Article 82 EC: a report containing a set of research papers produced under the auspices of the
Global Competition Law Centre. The papers comprised in this report cover the
main issues raised by the application of Article 82 of the EC Treaty.
» Details and download