Subjects:

Legal Manuals

Contents:

Table of Cases and Commission Decisions

Table of UK Legislation

Table of European Community Treaties

Table of European Community Secondary Legislation

1. Introduction

2. Article 81(1): Anti-competitive Agreements

3. Article 81(3): Escape from Prohibition

4. Regulation 240/96: The Block Exemption on Technology Transfer

5. Article 82: Abuse of a Dominant Position

6. Compliance

7. Investigations

8. Using the Competition Rules in National Courts

9. Cases Involving the Competition Rules in the European Court

10. The Relationship between the Competition Rules, Rules on Free Movement of Goods and Intellectual Property Rights

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 Regulation 17/62

Appendix 2 Block Exemption 2790/99

Appendix 3 Hearing Officers and Commission Policy on Access to the File

Appendix 4 Extracts from Regulation 3385/94: Form A/B

Appendix 5 Glossary

Appendix 6 Overview of European Community Law

Appendix 7 The Court of Justice of the European Communities

Appendix 8 Flowcharts

Appendix 9 Bibliography

Index

This was the final edition of this Title

Produced in conjunction with the Inns of Court School of Law, the Bar Manuals are designed specifically for students on the Bar Vocational Course. The series takes a practical and accessible approach to subjects covered on the Bar Vocational Course, placing them in context with worked examples and sample materials.

This edition covers the important topics found in EC Competition law in depth and from a practitioner's perspective, making them an indispensable aid to the student. The manual poses and answers problems that will face the junior practitioner including, how to write an opinion for a client in a case raising issues of competition law; how to draft statements of case which rely upon European competition laws either as a cause of action or as a defence. These issues are discussed as case studies so that the context is clear.