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The Role of Consulting Services in Promoting Competitive Culture
2019
Maintaining a normal competitive environment on the market is the core objective of the competition authorities. Policies and regulations applied in pursuit of this purpose have the role of identifying and eliminating situations of constraint on free competition. The developing market of Moldova is characterized by a low level of the competitive culture. Therefore, the business community have few knowledge and understanding of competition policies and regulations, relatively new in this market. In other cases, the lack of cooperation with competition authorities leads to erroneous information and ineffective decisions. In this context, the consultancy in the field of competition presents o…
Using GATS Article II to Resort to Investment Arbitration
2020
It is widely known that links between international investment law and World Trade Organization (WTO) rules—which are part of competition law at the global level—are numerous. But is it possible to use a WTO rule to resort to investment arbitration? This is what a corporation from Luxembourg attempted to do recently as a consequence of a dispute arising from an investment made in the airport sector in Senegal. Since Luxembourg had no investment treaty with the investor’s host state, the claimant sought to establish the jurisdiction of an investment tribunal by combining the most-favoured-nation clause provided in General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) Article II and the investor-stat…
Competition Advocacy: Soft Power in Competitive Policy
2013
Abstract Changing market conditions stimulate modernization of criteria, norms and standards of competition regulation and methods of enforcement. Competition advocacy is a type of activity exercised by antimonopoly authorities to strengthen competitive environment without enforcement measures, through developing active cooperation with other government bodies and increasing the degree of understanding of the benefits of competition by the community.
Private Enforcement in Italy
2020
Directive 2014/104/EU on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of theEuropeanUnion has been transposed in Italy by means of LegislativeDecree no. 3 of 2017, whichlargely reproduces the Directive not only with regard to the structure but also in respect of the wording of the provisions. As with ot her Member States, for example France,Italian lawmakers opted to enact a lex specialis for antitrust damages actions and limited the implementation to what was necessary, without any amendment to the codes of Italy, neither to the Code of Civil Procedure nor to the Civil Code, the latter of which c…
The rules against the human trafficking: the Italian job‚ and the needs for a new not exclusively legislative answer.
2009
This study exposes from one side the latest development of the Italian statutory law on human trafficking and from the other side my personal doubt that the question is only really effective if approached from a criminal law point of view.
Dominējošā stāvokļa ļaunprātīga izmantošana gadījumos, kad tirgus dalībnieks rīkojas likumiski.
2021
Maģistra darbā “Dominējošā stāvokļa ļaunprātīga izmantošana gadījumos, kad tirgus dalībnieks rīkojas likumiski” ir analizēti gadījumi, kad pārklājas nozaru regulējums un konkurences tiesības, regulējošo iestāžu un konkurences iestāžu kompetence, kā arī attaisnojums gadījumos, kad pirmšķietami tirgus dalībnieks pārkāpj dominējošā stāvokļa ļaunprātīgas izmantošanas aizliegumu, lai gan patiesībā to uz konkrētu rīcību piespiež normatīvais regulējums, piemēram, nosakot noteiktus tarifus. Darba rezultātā izvirzīti secinājumi par aktuāliem jautājumiem, kas skar darba tēmu, tai skaitā, par dubultās nesodīšanas principu, konkurences un regulatoru kompetenču pārklāšanos, kā arī standartu, kas nepieci…