One day-and-a-half training comprised of three consecutive
half-day workshop sessions. One of the
sessions will focus on study cases. The workshop aims at
providing judges already dealing with
competition cases with a deeper knowledge of the following
topics: judicial review on antitrust
decisions, the relationship between Competition Law and Sector
Specific Regulation, digital economy,
competition, innovation and inequalities, public and private
antitrust enforcement, state aids.
Speakers are expert practitioners and trainers who will present
their report on the selected issues
according to a legal and economic perspective.
PROGRAMME
1st day
Moderator: TBC
9.00 – 9.30
Arrival and Registration of Participants
9.30-10.00
Welcome Words & Presentation of the European Judicial
Training Network (EJTN)
Ian Stewart Forrester (Judge at the EU General Court) or Sir
Peter Roth (President, UK Competition Appeal Tribunal-CAT)
EJTN
10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00
Judicial review in competition cases: a legal perspective
Judicial review in competition cases: an economic perspective
Nils Wahl (Advocate General at the Court of Justice) Bruno
Lasserre (Council of State, France)
Frédéric Jenny (Essec Business School)
Kai-Uwe Kuhn (Charles River Associates, ex Chief Economist DG
Comp)
Massimo Motta (professor, Barcelona Graduate School of
Economics)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break 11.30-12.00
Procedural fairness, due process and EU and ECHR
jurisprudence
Roberto Chieppa Councilor of State and General Secretary of
Italian Antitrust authority Giorgio Monti (European University
Institute)
12.00-13.00
The relationship between Competition Law and Sector Specific
Regulation: issues and judicial review
Nicolas Petit (professor, University of Liege) Luigi Carbone
(President of section of Italian Council of State)
13.00-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30-16.00 16.00-16.45
Working Group: case study on judicial review
Working Group: case study on competition and regulation
Working Group: case study on procedural fairness and due
process
Working Group follow-up
Alberto Heimler (professor, SNA- Italian Superior school of
administration) Mel Marquis (EUI European University Institute)
Giorgio Monti (EUI European University Institute)
16.45-17.00 Coffee Break
17.00-17.30
Restrictions by object and by effect in the digital economy
Richard Whish (King’s College) Alberto Heimler (professor,
SNA)
17.30-18.00 Competition and innovation; competition and
inequalities
Federico Ghezzi (Università Bocconi)
18.00 End of Day 1
19.00 Official Dinner
2nd day
Moderator: TBC
9.00-9.30 Arrival and Registration of Participants
9.30-10.00 10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00
Binding effects of the decisions of NCA in actions for damages
State aid rules and the role of national judges Reasonable time for
the administrative proceedings and for the judicial review process.
National rights in processes with accelerated procedures
E. De Smijter (director, DG Comp)
Roberto Adam (SNA - Italian Superior school of administration)
Massimo Merola (College of Europe, Bruges)
Stewart Forrester (Judge at the EU General Court) Ian Nils Wahl
(Advocate General at the Court of Justice)
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11.30-12.00 The economic impact of
court judgements
Frédéric Jenny (Essec Business School) Kai-Uwe Kuhn (Charles
River Associates, ex Chief Economist DG Comp) Massimo Motta
(professor, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)
12.00-12.30 Closing remarks
Ian Stewart Forrester (Judge at the EU General Court) or Sir
Peter Roth (President, UK Competition Appeal Tribunal-CAT)
