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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
| WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER 2010 |
Moderator:
Frank Fine (Director, EC Competition Law Advocates, Brussels)
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08h40 : |
Registration and welcome coffee
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09h15 : |
Keynote presentation
Nadia Calvino
- Deputy Director-General for Mergers and Antitrust, European Commission
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| 09h45 : |
Hendrik Viaene
- Partner, Stibbe Brussels
Bernard Amory
- Partner, Jones Day Brussels
- "Latest developments in EU cartel enforcement policy"
- Airfreight: Extraterritorial jurisdiction taking a new turn?
- T-Mobile: Does this judgment signal a new policy on information exchanges and for liability for a single contact with competitors?
- Calcium Carbide: What are the legal measures available to cartelists to reduce, eliminate or postpone payment of fines on grounds of inability to pay?
- The Commission's updated policy on "crisis" cartels
- Have antitrust compliance programs regained their ground as a mitigating circumstance?
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| 10h45 : |
Coffee break
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| 11h15 : |
Johan Ysewyn
- Linklaters Brussels
Dirk Van Erps
- Head of Unit, Cartels II, DG COMP, EC
- "Dawn raids: how far can the Commission go"
- What level of "cause" is necessary to justify a search of premises, and can an unjustified search be challenged in the CFI, or damages obtained?
- What tools are available to the Commission in carrying out searches of computers, and what are the rights of defence against such searches?
- What is the legal extent of information sharing among competition authorities in the wake of a multi-jurisdictional raid?
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| 12h00 : |
Julian Joshua- Partner, Howrey Brussels
- "Is the Commission stretching the SCI concept beyond the limit of its logic?"
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| 12h30 : |
William Bishop
- Vice President, Charles River Associates
Amelia Fletcher (to be confirmed)
- Chief economist, Office of Fair Trading, UK
- "The economics of cartel defense"
- The tactical role of economic analysis in the Article 81 assessment and for seeking a reduction in fines
- Can proof that an alleged cartelist acted "competitively" result in a significant reduction in the fine?
- When is relevant market analysis useful in the context of cartel defense?
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| 13h30 : |
Lunch
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| 14h45 : |
Mario Siragusa
- Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Rome
Cesare Rizza
- Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Rome
Jean-Francois Bellis
- Partner, Van Bael & Bellis, Brussels
Conor Quigley Q.C.
- Brick Court Chambers, London
- "Leniency and settlements"
- Has the 2006 EU Leniency Notice been a boon or a burden?
- What has the Commission's experience in Airfreight shown in respect of the unreliability of leniency statements as probative evidence?
- What can be expected from the adoption of the ECN Model Leniency Programme?
- Are the benefits under the 2008 Settlements Notice sufficient to justify a compelled admission of liability?
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| 15h45 : |
Daniele Calisti
- Private Enforcement Unit, DG COMP, EC
Pierre Bos
- Partner, BarentsKrans Den Haag
Richard Alan Arnold (to be confirmed)
- Kenny Nachwalter
- "Managing follow-on litigation risk"
- What is the status of class actions in the US and EU Member States, and what are the risks that they pose?
- Are there legal measures to prevent (or to compel) the production of evidence in other jurisdictions, such as the US?
- Can a Statement of Objections, or evidence in support of it, be obtained in a US court?
- Does the CFI have a role to play in resisting intrusive discovery requests or in staying national court proceedings?
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| 17h00 : |
Closing drink
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