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This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to EC competition law, and delivers a clear and concise exposition of an increasingly complex and wide ranging subject. As well as analysing the key Treaty articles governing the area (Articles 81 and 82), it considers the recent developments in the application of the competition rules to oligopolies, mergers and the exercise of intellectual property rights and addresses in detail the issues to which their enforcement, by both the Commission and national courts, gives rise. Its publication is particularly timely in the United Kingdom with the incorporation into national law of the principles and practices of EC competition law by the Competition Act 1998.
List of contents
Introduction
1. The Nature of Competition Law and its Place in the Framework of the Treaty
2. The Competition Rules of the Treaty: General
3. Article 85 (1)
4. Article 86
5. Oligopolies
6. Mergers
7. Intellectual Property
8. Enforcement
9. External Considerations
10. Privileged Undertakings
11. State Aids
12. Judicial Protection
13. Special Sectors
Summary
This book aims to provide an accessible introduction to EC competition law, and delivers a clear and concise exposition of an increasingly complex and wide ranging subject. As well as analysing the key Treaty articles governing the area (Articles 81 and 82), it considers the recent developments in the application of the competition rules to oligopolies, mergers and the exercise of intellectual property rights and addresses in detail the issues to which their enforcement, by both the Commission and national courts, gives rise. Its publication is particularly timely in the United Kingdom with the incorporation into national law of the principles and practices of EC competition law by the Competition Act 1998.
