Since 1985, the Member States of the European Union have enacted new national competition laws, or amended their existing competition laws, so that these laws are now all more or less converging upon the EC competition rules as laid down in Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty and in the Concentration Control Regulation 4064/89/EC (as amended by Regulation 1310/97/EC). This is a comprehensive textbook of the Competition Laws of the Member States of the European Union and of Switzerland.;The reader should find a short synopsis per country of the powers of special sectorial regulators (if any) in fields such as telecommunication, energy, broadcasting and public transport. The substantive and procedural rules of Switzerland have also been included in this work, as Switzerland is an important trading partner for almost all Member States and is geographically encircled by the EU.;Written by distinguished competition law specialists from each Member State and from Switzerland, the work has been set up to be as practical and informative as possible. Not only has the existing legal framework been described - with footnotes referencing landmark decisions, annexes providing practical information and ""charts"" on the decision-making process in each country - but, also, where appropriate, it has been explained how the legal system works in practice. As such, this work should be of interest to private practitioners, in-house lawyers, bankers, accountants, tax advisers and to anyone else who comes across competition law in their daily course of business.
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