Ben Van Rompuy, Author at Kluwer Competition Law Blog

Premier League fans in Europe worse off after Murphy judgment

Ben Van Rompuy (Europa Institute, Leiden Law School)/May 6, 2014 /1 Comment

When the European Court of Justice (CJ) delivered its judgment in joined cases FA Premier League v QC Leisure and others (C-403/08) and Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services (C-429/08) (Murphy), it was deemed a radical game-changer for the way in which sports media rights are sold in the EU. The doom and gloom scenario…

Competition, European Union

“Thanks Nicolas Sarkozy, but no thanks.” CJEU rules on status of Protocol on Internal Market and Competition

Ben Van Rompuy (Europa Institute, Leiden Law School)/November 25, 2011July 16, 2018 /Leave a comment

When the EU leaders agreed on the final version of the Lisbon Treaty, one particular amendment caused turmoil in the European competition law community. The Lisbon Treaty repealed the 50-year-old commitment to “undistorted competition”, embedded in the fundamental provisions of the EC Treaty (Article 3(1)(g) EC), and moved it to a Protocol annexed to the…