Goyder's EC Competition Law

by Goyder, Joanna; Albors-Llorens, Albertina

• ISBN13: 9780199232307
• ISBN10: 019923230X
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Goyder's EC Competition Law is firmly established as a classic text on this area of law. The emergence of competition law has been one of the most important features of the EC and has had a significant impact on many aspects of UK business and economic life. This book provides a full account of its development since the inception of the EC in 1957. Competition law is a complex and often highly technical subject which the authors have unlocked by exploring its historical origins and early developments before illustrating the main areas of substantive law. Covering all of the major areas studied on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, the book contains not only a full account of the substantive law and its social, political and economic context, but also a penetrating assessment of its practical effectiveness and likely future development. Topics covered in this new, revised, fifth edition, include: - the Modernization of the Enforcement of the EC Competition rules - the new Block Exemption Regulations on Motor Vehicle and Distribution, and Technology Transfer Agreements - the Commission review of Article 82 EC - the new Merger Regulation - recent developments in international aspects of EC competition law

Author Biography

Joanna Goyder, Barrister, England and Wales, MA (Cantab.), Lic. Spec. (ULB, Brussels), LLM (EUI, Florence) has worked in Brussels in the field of EU and competition law since 1990. Since 2000 she has been head of knowledge management, legal training and publications for the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer international competition law practice. She is the author of EC Distribution Law (Hart Publishing, 2005) and has contributed to a number of other books including most recently the Oxford Encyclopaedia of European Community Law - Volume III: Competition Law and Policy (2008, OUP).
Albertina Albors-Llorens; Licenciatura en Derecho (University of Valencia (Spain)); LL.M. (University of London); Ph.D. (University of Cambridge) is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of two books: Private Parties in EC Law (OUP, 1996), and EC Competition Law and Policy (Willan, 2002). She has also written various articles on Competition Law and Judicial Review in EC law in domestic and European law journals. She was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow between 1996 and 1999 and has been a Fellow of Girton College since 1997. In 2003, she was awarded a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for teaching excellence.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Early Years
1: Introduction
2: Competition Policy and the Role of Economics
3: The Origins of European Competition Law
4: The Early Years of DG Comp
5: The Advent of the Block Exemption
Part II: The Substantive Law of the European Community
6: Article 81(1) Analysis 1
7: Article 81(1) Analysis 2
8: Article 81(3) Conditions for Exemption
9: Horizontal Agreements: Cartels
10: Distribution Agreements and Practices
11: Distribution: Selective Distribution and Franchising
12: Intellectual Property Rights: Licensing
13: Article 82: The Concept of Dominance
14: Article 82: Abuse
15: Article 82: Its Relationship with Article 81
16: Mergers (1)
17: Mergers (2)
18: Joint Ventures and Horizontal Co-operation Agreements
19: Enforcement of Community Law by National Authorities
20: National Courts and the Direct Application of Community Law
21: Member States and EC Competition Rules
22: International Aspects of EC Competition Law
Part III Conclusions and Prospects
23: Fifty Years of the Treaty Rome
24: The Future of European Competition Law
Part I: The Early Years
1. Introduction
2. Competition Policy and the Role of Economics
3. The Origins of European Competition Law
4. The Early Years of DG Comp
5. The Advent of the Block Exemption
Part II: The Substantive Law of the European Community
6. Article 81(1) Analysis 1
7. Article 81(1) Analysis 2
8. Article 81(3) Conditions for Exemption
9. Horizontal Agreements: Cartels
10. Distribution Agreements and Practices
11. Distribution: Selective Distribution and Franchising
12. Intellectual Property Rights: Licensing
13. Article 82: The Concept of Dominance
14. Article 82: Abuse
15. Article 82: Its Relationship with Article 81
16. Mergers (1)
17. Mergers (2)
18. Joint Ventures and Horizontal Co-operation Agreements
19. Enforcement of Community Law by National Authorities
20. National Courts and the Direct Application of Community Law
21. Member States and EC Competition Rules
22. International Aspects of EC Competition Law
Part III Conclusions and Prospects
23. Fifty Years of the Treaty Rome
24. The Future of European Competition Law