LEGAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING | COMPETITION LAW

The 4th Petar Šarčević international scientific conference is going to be held from 9-10 April 2015 in Rovinj, Croatia. It is dedicated to EU and national competition and state aid rules. The efficient enforcement of competition and state aid rules is one of the keys to the successful economic development and stability of the EU internal market.

While the Commission is charged with application of EU state aid rules, EU competition rules are applied by national enforcers as well. Proper and uniform application across Member States is thus one of the biggest challenges in this area of law. Particularly important in this regard are the national enforcers responsible for the direct application of EU competition rules.

Since the accession to the EU, Croatia shares with other Member States the responsibility to apply EU competition rules in an informed, competent and responsible manner. The novelties are many, as it is an ever-changing body of law constantly adapting to new market situations. One of the most recent developments relates to recent adoption of the Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions creating as many opportunities as obstacles.

With this in mind, the goal of the conference is to provide a platform to discuss recent case-law and legislative developments in the area of EU and national competition and state aid law. Special focus is going to be on the interaction between public and private enforcement. The conference will run for two days. The first conference day will address public enforcement of competition and state aid rules. The second conference day deals with specific issues of private enforcement.

The conference aims at stakeholders and entities participating in the process of application of competition law. Namely, judges, attorneys, in-house lawyers and other legal practitioners and most of all to market participants who may have suffered injury as a result of the breach of competition or state aid rules.

PUBLIC ENFORCEMENT TOPICS

• Re-examination of the role of the General Court of the EU in shaping competition and state aid rules
• Recent EU and Croatian cases
• Investigating powers of European Commission and Croatian Competition Agency
• Leniency and settlement procedures
• Fines
• Novelties in state aid law.

PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT TOPICS

• EU Directive on Antitrust Damages
• Disclosure of evidence
• Passing-on defense
• Class actions
• Jurisdiction and conflicts of laws in antitrust litigation.

For more information about the program of the conference, speakers and other details, please visit the conference’s website.

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Ivana Kunda

Associate Professor at University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law

Ivana Kunda is the Head of the Department for International and European Private Law at the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law. She teaches various legal courses and provides expert legal advice in the fields of conflict of laws and European private law for clients all over Europe. She is a member of the International Law Association and the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property.

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