Conference

Conference, European Commission, Foreign subsidies, Foreign Subsidy Regulation, Geopolitics, Merger control, Merger notification, Merger Thresholds, State aid, State owned enterprise (SOE), Subsidies, Tender, Trade Law

(Simmons & Simmons) and (University of Antwerp)/ /Leave a comment

Adopted in November 2022, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) is the latest arrival in the EU competition toolbox. Having just celebrated its second anniversary and with a few cases under its belt, the FSR is still the object of much discussion and curiosity from practitioners and stakeholders. To contribute to this debate, an expert panel…

Conference, Digital, Digital competition, Digital economy, Digital markets, Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, Digitisation, Enforcement

(University of Vienna)/ /Leave a comment

While core competition law enforcement has been going on for a while, the enforcement of the adjacent digital regulation is just beginning. The conference “Tools for Better Enforcement of EU Law in the Digital Space” dealt with such problems and took place on November 7 and 8, 2024 at the European Legal Studies Institute (ELSI)…

Competition law, Competition policy, Conference, Digital competition

(University of Göttingen, Germany)/ /Leave a comment

From 4th to 6th September 2024, 96 young competition law and economics scholars, from PhD students to post-docs and assistant professors, gathered in Vienna to discuss a wide array of topical issues of competition law. In its second edition, the young competition law scholars conference managed to attract attention not only from the DACH-region but…

Collective Redress, Conference, Damages, Digital, National court, Private actions, Private enforcement

(Max Planck Institute for Competition and Innovation)/ /Leave a comment

On November 3rd 2023, the University of Vienna, Department of European, International and Comparative Law, together with the European Circle for Competition Damages and the Austrian Society for European Law (ÖGER) hosted a conference on the relevant issue of disclosing evidence in antitrust damages proceedings. Roughly ten years after the European Damages Directive had been…