Product Description

This is the second edition of a key analytical commentary on the competition procedures of the EC, written by a distinguished editor and contributor team with extensive experience in the area. It provides the reader with an exhaustive account of the relevant rules, which includes a completely revised and updated analysis of antitrust procedure in the wake of the modernization of EU competition law. The reader is given a detailed discussion of the Commission's package of regulations and guidelines and their interaction in practice, in a field where new rules have caused a major change and the need for practitioners to reorientate themselves. The section on antitrust rules will be complemented by new sections on procedures for public undertakings, merger control, and state aid. As a practical guide to procedure it focuses upon the implementation of the regulatory framework by the Commission and the relevant case law of the European Courts. It will prove an indispensable source of guidance for all practitioners involved in competition proceedings before the European Commission and national competition authorities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1026643 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1744 pages

About the Author
Luis Ortiz Blanco is partner at the EU and Competition Law Group of Garrigues Abogados. He is a former official of DGIV of the European Commission (now DG COMP), where he worked between 1986 and 1993 and in 1996. Currently he represents clients both before national and Community authorities or jurisdictions, including defence and complaints for anticompetitive behaviour both under Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty, notification of mergers before the European Commission's MTF and
the Spanish Competition Authorities, and state aids. He has been handling the merger filings of large international and Spanish companies.

Luis Ortiz Blanco is also the Director of the EC and Spanish Competition Law Courses at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid.