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Insights into the Vienna Competition Law Days 2024

ComplawAdmin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:43:30 +0000

In the current issue of the Austrian Competition Journal (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht), David Führer takes a look back at the Vienna Competition Law Days 2024, which The Hub hosted at the Vienna University of Economics and Business on 12 and 13 September 2024. He gives an overview of the workshop’s four panels and the ensuing discussions, as well as of Stavros Makris’s book talk. The article, in German, is available here.

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Workshop on Market Definition

ComplawAdmin — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:33:00 +0000

On 8 February 2024, the European Commission published its new Market Definition Notice 2024. This Notice consolidates knowledge and Commission practice of the last two decades as well as introducing new concepts. At the same time, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice published new US Merger Guidelines in December of 2023 that also address the question of the relevant market.

Against this background, the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement launched a call for papers to bring together scholarship in law and in economics addressing the changes introduced by these new soft law instruments, and their implications for competition law scholarship and practice. The selected papers will be published as a special issue, with Magali Eben and Vicky Robertson as guest editors.

In a one-day workshop on Wednesday, 20 November 2024, we discussed the draft papers submitted for the special issue and provided feedback on them. Thank you to all speakers, commentators and participants for a lively discussion!

You can find the programme below.

Workshop Programme_Market Def 2024_final Download

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Vienna Competition Law Days 2024

ComplawAdmin — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:43:00 +0000

On 12 and 13 September 2024, The Competition Law Hub once again hosted the Vienna Competition Law Days at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Bringing together leading academics, competition enforcers and practitioners, the workshop aimed to foster discussions on current issues in competition law and economics. In addition to a book talk on responsive antitrust, four panels discussed algorithms, Article 102 TFEU reform, the circular economy, and competition enforcement. You can find the programme here:

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The Market Definition Notice 2024

ComplawAdmin — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:17:00 +0000

In February 2024, the European Commission published its revised Market Definition Notice. For the first time, this new instrument contains important guidance on how to delineate digital platform markets and ecosystems. It also leaves some important questions unanswered, however. On 18 March 2024, Competition Law in Conversationdiscussed the digital elements in the new Notice with Thomas Büttner (European Commission), who was involved in the drafting of the revised Notice, and Magali Eben (University of Glasgow), who has widely published on digital market definition. The session was moderated by Vicky Robertson.

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Insights into the Vienna Competition Law Days 2023

ComplawAdmin — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:11:42 +0000

In the current issue of the Austrian Competition Journal (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht), Fabian Ziermann takes a look back at the Vienna Competition Law Days 2023, which The Hub hosted at the Vienna University of Economics and Business on 11 and 12 September 2023. He gives an overview of the workshop’s four panels and the ensuing discussions, as well as of Klaudia Majcher’s book launch. The article, in German, is available here.

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Priority-Setting in Antitrust in the Digital Era

ComplawAdmin — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:20:00 +0000

What cases are prioritised by competition authorities when it comes to the digital economy? What patterns can be observed, and how does an authority actually decide which instruments to make use of (eg, national vs EU competition law, DMA, etc)? We discussed priority-setting in the digital era with Silke Hossenfelder (German Federal Cartel Office) and Or Brook (University of Leeds) on 24 October 2023 in Vienna.

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Vienna Competition Law Days 2023

ComplawAdmin — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 08:17:00 +0000

On 11 and 12 September 2023, The Competition Law Hub was pleased to host the second edition of the Vienna Competition Law Days at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Bringing together leading academics, competition enforcers and practitioners, the workshop aimed to foster discussions on current issues in competition law and economics. In addition to a book launch, four panels discussed democracy and competition law, computational antitrust, digital mergers and the Digital Markets Act.

You can find the programme here: https://www.complawhub.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/VCLD-2023_programme_final.pdf

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Competition Law in Conversation: Smart Farming

ComplawAdmin — Tue, 23 May 2023 08:45:00 +0000

As farming becomes more digitalised and, in fact, ‘platformised’, the question arises whether competition law can harness some of the insights it has gathered in technology cases and apply them to issues arising in smart farming. In this instalment of Competition Law in Conversation on 23 May 2023, Manuel Gómez-Barbero of the European Commission’s Joint Research Center first set out what the future of smart farming could look like. Then, Ioannis Lianos (Head of the Hellenic Competition Commission) addressed the antitrust side of things when it comes to the digital future of agriculture. The session was moderated by Vicky Robertson of The Competition Law Hub.

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Digital Merger Control: Past, Present and Future

ComplawAdmin — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 07:12:00 +0000

The increasing concentration in digital markets has led to the question whether competition law has sufficient tools at its disposal to curb acquisitions by Big Tech. In late 2022, the European Commission published a Policy Brief setting out its past approach to digital mergers, and allowing a glimpse into the future. At the same time, Vicky Robertson provided an expert report to the Commission on national cases regarding digital mergers, for which she analysed data from a wide range of Member States.

On 25 April 2023, we discussed these questions with Sean Mernagh (European Commission) and The Hub’s Vicky Robertson, moderated by Klaudia Majcher.

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Looking Back at the Vienna Competition Law Days 2022

ComplawAdmin — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:02:45 +0000

In the latest issue of the Austrian Competition Journal (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht), Franziska Guggi recaps the Vienna Competition Law Days 2022 and provides an overview of the discussion results. The contribution is in German and can be accessed here.

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