The European Competition Law Annual 2004 is ninth in a series of volumes following the annual workshops on EU Competition Law and Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence. This volume reproduces the materials of the roundtable debate that took place at the ninth workshop (June 11-12 2004), which examined the relationship between competition law and the regulation of liberal professions. The liberal professions and the rules governing their functioning have become of interest for EC competition law enforcement since the early nineties, making them the object of a series of Commission decisions and judgments of the European courts. The subject has gained in importance in the perspective of the recent decentralization of EC antitrust enforcement. The regulation of liberal professions is also a matter of increasing concern from the perspective of freedom of services in the internal market. The workshop participants—a group of senior representatives of the Commission and the national competition authorities of some Member States, reknown international academics and legal practitioners—discussed the economic, legal, and political/institutional issues that arise in the relationship between competition law and the regulation of liberal professions.
Author(s): Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, Isabela Atanasiu
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 610
Half Title Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Title verso......Page 4
Permanent Sponsors of the Annual EUI Competition Workshops......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Table of Cases......Page 9
Introduction......Page 19
Panel One: Economic Aspects 1. Panel Discussion......Page 37
Panel One: Economic Aspects 2. Working Papers......Page 85
I. Benito Arruñada - Managing Competition in Professional Services and the Burden of Inertia......Page 87
II. Dr Amelia Fletcher - The Liberal Professions—Getting the Regulatory Balance Right......Page 109
III. Marc Hameleers, Jeroen van den Heuvel Rijnders and Sander Baljé - Towards a Smarter Protection of Public Interests in the Liberal Professions......Page 121
IV. Harald Herrmann - Antitrust Law Compliance and Professional Governance: How Can the European Commission Trigger Competitive Self-regulation?......Page 137
V. Frédéric Jenny - Regulation, Competition and the Professions......Page 167
VI. Frank H Stephen - The Market Failure Justification for the Regulation of Professional Service Markets and the Characteristics of Consumers......Page 179
VII. Roger van den Bergh - Towards Efficient Self-regulation in Markets for Professional Services......Page 191
Panel Two: Legal Issues 1. Panel Discussion......Page 213
Panel Two: Legal Issues 2. Working Papers......Page 253
I. Pamela Brumter Coret - Freedom of Establishment and Freedom to Provide Services for Regulated Professions in the Internal Market: New Initiatives by the Commission......Page 255
II. John D Cooke - Vocation as Commodity......Page 265
III. Harry First - Liberal or Learned? European and US Antitrust Approaches to the Professions......Page 275
IV. Ian S Forrester, QC - Where Law Meets Competition: Is Wouters Like a Cassis de Dijon or a Platypus?......Page 307
V. Hans Gilliams - Competition Law and Public Interest: Do We Need to Change the Law for the (Liberal) Professions?......Page 331
VI. Calvin S Goldman, QC and Benjamin R Little - The Regulated Conduct Defence in Canada......Page 371
VII. Luc Gyselen - Anti-competitive State Action in the Area of Liberal Professions: An EU/US Comparative Law Perspective......Page 389
VIII. William Kolasky - Antitrust and the Liberal Professions: The US Experience......Page 433
IX. Santiago Martínez Lage and Rafael Allendesalazar Corcho - Professions and Competition in Spain: A Long and Winding Road......Page 445
X. Assimakis P Komninos - Resolution of Conflicts in the Integrated Article 81 EC......Page 487
Panel Three: Institutional/Political Issues 1. Panel Discussion......Page 509
Panel Three: Economic Aspects 2. Working Papers......Page 551
I. Lowri Evans, Maija Laurila and Ruth Paserman - Professional Services: Recent EU Developments and Work in Progress......Page 553
II. Allan Fels - The Australian Experience Concerning Law and the Professions......Page 565
III. William E Kovacic - Competition Policy Research and Development, Institutional Interdependency, and the Future Work of Competition Agencies in the Professions......Page 583
IV. Mark C Schechter and Christine C Wilson - The Learned Professions in the United States: Where Do We Stand Thirty Years after Goldfarb?......Page 591
V. Mario Siragusa - Critical Remarks on the Commission’s Legal Analysis in its Report on Competition in Professional Services......Page 619
