EU Competition Conference 2019

12:00 p.m.

Registration and lunch buffet

12:45 p.m.

Welcome

1:00 p.m.

Dr Andreas Schwab
Member of the European Parliament
Internal market spokesman for the EPP Group 

• German/French/Polish paper on Modernising EU Competition Policy - A view from Europe

1:20 p.m.

Session 1: Merger Control

• Industrial policy considerations in EU merger control: Necessary amendment or dead end?
• Gun-jumping, misleading information, non-compliance with commitments: Stricter enforcement of merger control by authorities? 

Angélique de Brousse, Johnson&Johnson
Étienne Chantrel, French Competition Authority  
Benedikt Ecker, thyssenkrupp
Ruben Maximiano, OECD

Moderators: 
Dr Harald Kahlenberg, CMS Stuttgart
Prof Dr Rupprecht Podszun, University of Düsseldorf

2:15 p.m.

Session 2: Abusive Practices

• Buyer power: Need for change in EU law?
• Rebates two years after Intel: Did practices change?
• New forms of abuse: AB Inbev and other cases

Philippe Chauve, Food Task Force, DG Competition
Prof Dr José Luís Cruz Vilaça, former ECJ judge / rapporteur in Intel case
Ben Graham, AB InBev
Karen Schutyser, Coca Cola European Partners

Moderators: 
Dr Michael Bauer, CMS Brussels
Carlos Vérgez, CMS Madrid

3:15 p.m.

Coffee break

3:45 p.m.

Session 3: Vertical Restraints

• New VBER: Exclusivities, pricing, e-commerce for the next decade
• Leniency applications: What to do if ‘it’ happened?

Dr Markus Kürten, adidas
Nicolas Lievens, L’OREAL
Dr Luca Schicho, Austrian Competition Authority
Marieke Scholz, DG Competition

Moderators: 
Dr Markus Schöner, CMS Hamburg
Małgorzata Urbańska, CMS Warsaw

4:45 p.m.

Session 4: Cartel Damage Claims

• Good practice in damage claims – Some learnings from recent cases
• The ECJ’s Skanska decision and its consequences – more than just piercing the veil

Prof Dr Christian Kersting, University of Düsseldorf
Dr Tilman Makatsch, Deutsche Bahn
Vitaly Pruzhansky, RBB Economics Brussels
Dr Mathias Traub, Robert Bosch GmbH

Moderators: 
Caroline Hobson, CMS London
Dr Tim Reher, CMS Hamburg

5:45 p.m.

Final remarks

6:00 p.m.

End of conference

6:45 p.m.

Reception

7:30 p.m.

Dinner

Guest speaker:
Henne Schuwer, Former Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United States