EU Competition Law: General Principles

• Provides an overview of the general principles of competition law in the European Union
• It focuses on key issues in EU Competition Law, including analysis of core Treaty articles and case law on the fundamental principles affecting commercial agreements
• Written by leading practitioners in the field of UK and EU competition law

Readership: Soliciters and barristers specialising in competition law, in-house lawyers, policy makers and economists, academics in the field, judges, reference libraries.

David Vaughan CBE QC, Barrister, Brick Court Chambers, Sarah Lee, Barrister, Brick Court Chambers, Brian Kennelly, Barrister, Blackstone Chambers, and Philip Riches, Barrister, Stone Chambers

Table of Legislation
Table of Cases
1 INTRODUCTION
A: General
B: Implementation of the rules of competition
2 SCOPE OF THE RULES OF COMPETITION
A: Territorial application
B: Personal application
C: Temporal application
D: Sectoral application
3 AGREEMENTS, DECISIONS OF ASSOCIATIONS OF UNDERTAKINGS AND CONCERTED PRACTICES
A: Introduction
B: Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
C: The object or effect of preventing
D: Effect on trade between Member States
E: The requirement of 'appreciable' effect on competition and on trade between Member states
F: Exemption
4 ABUSE OF DOMINANT POSITION
A: The prohibition
B: Dominant position
C: Abuse
D: Affecting trade between Member States
5 STATE INVOLVEMENT AND THE APPLICATION OF THE RULES ON COMPETITION
A: Article 86
B: Article 86(1)
C: Article 86(2)
D: Article 86(3)
E: Article 81 in conjunction with article 10
Index