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Zusatztext The annual volumes and the papers have had substantial influence and are a wonderful source of the contrasting views on the actual legislation that followed.This perceptive, detailed, and properly edited tool for reforming policy was warmly praised by Judge Cook when he still served in the Court of First Instance. This is the thirteenth annual volume: two more workshops have been held. Long may it continue to guide both those framing policy and those advising on the legislation when enacted. Informationen zum Autor Claus-Dieter Ehlermann is Senior Counsel with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP in Brussels, former Professor of EC Law at the European University Institute in Florence, and former Director General in both the Competition Directorate and Legal Service of the European Commission. He has also served as Member and Chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. Mel Marquis is Part-time Professor of Law at the European University Institute in Florence and Professore a contratto at LUMSA University in Rome. Klappentext This is the thirteenth in a series on EU Competition Law and Policy produced under the auspices of the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence. The volume contains the written contributions of numerous competition policy experts, together with the transcripts of a roundtable debate which examined the subject of "settlements" between enforcers of competition law and defendant companies in cartel cases and in other types of antitrust cases. The Workshop participants included:-- senior judges from major jurisdictions (the European Union, Germany and the United States);-- senior enforcement officials and policy makers from the European Commission, from the national competition authorities of certain EU Member States and from the US Department of Justice and the US Federal Trade Commission; and-- renowned international international academics, legal practitioners and professional economists. In an intense, intimate environment, this group of experts debated a number of legal and economic issues pertaining to two broad lines of discussion:1) settlements and plea agreements in cartel cases, including their links with leniency programs and with private enforcement; and 2) settlements in "commitment" cases decided under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003 and under comparable procedures of national law. Zusammenfassung This volume examines 'settlements' between enforcers of competition law and defendant companies in cartel cases and in other types of antitrust cases. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION - CARTEL SETTLEMENTS AND COMMITMENT DECISIONS Mel Marquis SESSION ONE: PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES OF ANTITRUST SETTLEMENTS PANEL I BROAD OVERVIEW: LEGAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES Discussion Written contributions I Wouter Wils, The Use of Settlements in Public Antitrust Enforcement: Objectives and Principles II Andreas Reindl, The Legal Framework Governing Negotiated Settlements/Plea Agreements in Cartel Cases in the United States III Aurora Ascione and Massimo Motta, Settlements in Cartel Cases IV Daniel Rubinfeld, Settlements in Antitrust Enforcement: A U.S. Economic Perspective V Stephen Wilks, A Political Science Approach: Restorative Justice and the "Fairness Critique" PANEL II A CLOSER LOOK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ENFORCERS, DEFENDANTS, POTENTIAL PLAINTIFFS, THE COURTS AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION Discussion Written contributions I Bruno Lasserre and Fabien Zivy, A Principled Approach to Settlements: A Few Open Issues II Ann O'Brien, Cartel Settlements in the U.S. and EU: Similarities, Differences and Remaining Questions III Mario Siragusa and Erika Guerri, Antitrust Settlements under EC Competition Law: The Point of View of the Defendants IV Shepard Goldfein and Thomas Pak, Negotiated Antitr...
