Competition Between Rules and Rules of Competition: A Legal and Economic Analysis of the Proposed Modernization of the Enforcement of EC Competition Law
9 Colum. J. Eur. L. 1 (2002) Damien Geradin. Professor of Law at the University of Liege and the College of Europe, Bruges. Over the last couple of years, a very hot debate has raged in the European Union over the European Commission (hereafter, the “Commission”) proposals to modernize the implementation of EC competition law. In essence, these proposals seek to promote a more decentralized application of EC competition law. The Commission argues that decentralization will allow a better implementation of EC competition rules. Many, however, argue that the proposed reforms will lead to a less coherent and, in some […]