This thoroughly revised and updated second edition provides an enhanced understanding of EU competition law, exploring significant substantive and enforcement issues relating to antitrust, merger control, the Digital Markets Act and state aid law. While considering well-established doctrines and landmark judgements, the textbook also addresses recent developments such as digitalisation, sustainability and globalisation, and how these issues will influence future inquiry into competition law.


This incisive textbook is an invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars of competition and European law. It is additionally beneficial for researchers and practitioners of comparative competition law; in particular, it is a useful guide for in-house company training courses.



TABLE OF CONTENTS



PART I PREREQUISITES OF COMPETITION LAW



1 The context of European competition law



2 The economics of competition law



PART II ANTITRUST LAW



3 The cartel prohibition and the ban on anti-competitive agreements



4 The prohibition to abuse a dominant position



PART III RULES RELATING TO PROCEDURES AND ENFORCEMENT



5 Public enforcement of the EU antitrust rules



6 Private enforcement of the EU antitrust rules



7 The Digital Markets Act



PART IV CONCENTRATION CONTROL



8 Concentration control



PART V COMPETITION RULES ADDRESSED TO THE MEMBER STATES



9 The state and competition



10 State aid law



PART VI CONCLUSIONS



11 Conclusions: the evolving role of European competition law