Re­gis­tra­tion is open! We are de­lighted to in­vite you to our tra­di­tion­al EU Com­pet­i­tion Con­fer­ence 2023 or­gan­ised jointly by the Hein­rich Heine Uni­versity Düs­sel­dorf - In­sti­tute for Com­pet­i­tion Law and the CMS An­ti­trust, Com­pet­i­tion & Trade Group.The con­fer­ence will take place on 11 May 2023 at the SQUARE Con­fer­ence Centre in Brus­sels from 10:00 to 17:30 fol­lowed by an even­ing event* at the BELvue Mu­seum.We are very hon­oured to be able to again wel­come a list of dis­tin­guished guest speak­ers from vari­ous in­sti­tu­tions and private com­pan­ies who will provide their valu­able per­spect­ives on the new­est trends in the wide field of com­pet­i­tion law.The list of com­pet­i­tion law ex­perts in­cludes:Olivi­er Guersent, Dir­ect­or-Gen­er­al of the Dir­ect­or­ate Gen­er­al for Com­pet­i­tion, European Com­mis­sionGuil­laume Lori­ot, Deputy Dir­ect­or-Gen­er­al Mer­gers at DG Com­pet­i­tion­Andreas Mun­dt, Pres­id­ent of the Ger­man Com­pet­i­tion Au­thor­ity­Dami­en Ger­ard, Pro­sec­utor Gen­er­al of the Bel­gian Com­pet­i­tion Au­thor­ityAndreas Schwab, Mem­ber of the European Par­lia­ment­Fur­ther­more, we are proud to an­nounce that our ses­sions will show­case a range of fur­ther com­pet­i­tion law ex­perts from vari­ous private com­pan­ies and com­pet­i­tion eco­nomy con­sultan­cies in­clud­ing speak­ers from AB In­Bev, Akzo No­bel, Al­stom, E.CA Eco­nom­ics, Mi­crosoft, Ox­era and many oth­ers.Our con­fer­ence will fea­ture in­ter­views, mul­tiple pan­el dis­cus­sions and fo­cused ses­sions, provid­ing in­sights on a vari­ety of im­port­ant top­ics. Con­fer­ence Pro­gramme:   10:00 Wel­come:  Chris­ti­an Ker­st­ing, Hein­rich Heine Uni­versity Düs­sel­dorf Mi­chael Bauer, CMS Brus­sels  10:10 Pan­el: Ver­tic­al re­straints Nav­ig­at­ing the new nor­mal - Ex­plor­ing the im­pact of new VBER and VGL on pri­cing strategies and on­line selling­Pan­el­lists:Miguel Pérez, Dir­ect­or An­ti­trust, IP & Com­mer­cial, Ab In­Bev­Car­los Vérgez, CMS Mad­rid­Mod­er­at­or:Mal­gorzata Urbanska, CMS Warsaw  10:50 In­ter­view with An­dreas Mun­dt, Pres­id­ent of the Ger­man Com­pet­i­tion Au­thor­ity A new ap­proach to­wards sus­tain­ab­il­ity agree­ments and buy­ing groups? Ger­many’s ideas for a new com­pet­i­tion toolGuest:An­dreas Mun­dt, Pres­id­ent of the Ger­man Com­pet­i­tion Au­thor­ity­In­ter­view­ers:Mi­chael Bauer, CMS Brus­sels­An­nemieke Hazel­hoff, CMS Am­s­ter­dam  11:25 Pan­el: Ho­ri­zont­al re­straints What lies ahead? - The EU Com­mis­sion’s new ap­proach con­cern­ing sus­tain­ab­il­ity agree­ments and in­form­a­tion ex­change­Pan­el­lists:Daniela Es­posito, Glob­al Head of Com­pet­i­tion Law, Akzo No­belDirk Mid­delschulte, VP Glob­al Gen­er­al Coun­sel Com­pet­i­tion, Uni­lever­Mod­er­at­ors:An­nemieke Hazel­hoff, CMS Am­s­ter­dam­Mi­chael Bauer, CMS Brus­sels  12:15 In­ter­view with Guil­laume Lori­ot, Deputy Dir­ect­or-Gen­er­al Mer­gers at DG Com­pet­i­tion Mer­ger con­trol de­vel­op­mentsGuest:Guil­laume Lori­ot, Deputy Dir­ect­or-Gen­er­al Mer­gers at DG Com­pet­i­tion­In­ter­view­ers:Chris­toff Hen­rik Soltau, CMS Ham­burg­Di­eter Zand­ler, CMS Vi­enna  14:00 Fo­cus Ses­sion: Private Dam­age Claims Cur­rent trends and pit­falls in private lit­ig­a­tion, in the EU and bey­ond­Pan­el­lists:Av­antika Chow­dhury, Part­ner, Ox­era Con­sult­ing­Chris­ti­an Ker­st­ing, Hein­rich Heine Uni­versity Düs­sel­dorfEd­mon Oude Elferink, CMS Am­s­ter­dam­Mod­er­at­or:Tim Re­her, CMS Ham­burg  14:00 Fo­cus Ses­sion: For­eign Dir­ect In­vest­ment Bey­ond Bor­ders: Key learn­ings and out­look on the fu­ture of For­eign In­vest­ment Con­trol­P­resenters:Kai Neuhaus, CMS Brus­sels­Jac­queline Val­lat, CMS Lon­don  14:00 Fo­cus Ses­sion: For­eign Sub­sidies Con­trol Mer­ger con­trol 3.0: How to nav­ig­ate these un­charted wa­ter­sPan­el­lists:Car­oline Med­ina, Com­pet­i­tion Law Leg­al Dir­ect­or, Al­stom­Clemens Kerle, CMS Os­lo­Mod­er­at­or:Claire Van­nini, CMS Par­is  14:45 In­ter­view with Olivi­er Guersent, Dir­ect­or-Gen­er­al of the Dir­ect­or­ate Gen­er­al for Com­pet­i­tion, European Com­mis­sion Top­ic­al ques­tions about ab­use pack­age, Reg 1/2003 re­view and more­Guest:Olivi­er Guersent, Dir­ect­or-Gen­er­al of the Dir­ect­or­ate Gen­er­al for Com­pet­i­tion, European Com­mis­sion­In­ter­view­ers:Rup­precht Pod­szun, Hein­rich Heine Uni­versity Düs­sel­dorf­Dirk Van Liedekerke, CMS Brus­sels  15:50 Pan­el: Ab­use of dom­in­ance The new pack­age on ex­clu­sion­ary ab­uses - Re­fin­ing the ef­fects-based ap­proach?Pan­el­lists:Dami­en Ger­ard, Pro­sec­utor Gen­er­al, Bel­gian Com­pet­i­tion Au­thor­itySi­mone Kohnz, Dir­ect­or, E.CA Eco­nom­ic­sRup­precht Pod­szun, Hein­rich Heine Uni­versity Düs­sel­dor­f­Mod­er­at­or:Bri­an Sher, CMS Lon­don  16:45 Pan­el: Di­git­al Reg­u­la­tion The Di­git­al Mar­kets Act comes to life - First ex­per­i­ences, first trend­sPan­el­lists:Soph­ie Gappa, Policy Of­ficer at the Com­pet­i­tion Unit of the Ger­man Fed­er­al Min­istry for Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and Cli­mate Ac­tionGer­hard Klumpe, Presid­ing judge at the Re­gion­al Court Dortmun­d­Carel Maske, Dir­ect­or of Com­pet­i­tion EMEA, Mi­crosoft­Mod­er­at­ors:Björn Her­bers, CMS Brus­selsSz­a­bolcs Szendro, CMS Bud­apest  18:30 Even­ing event* Din­ner speech: More reg­u­la­tion or more com­pet­i­tion? – An MEP’s point of viewby An­dreas Schwab, Mem­ber of the European Par­lia­ment Don't miss this un­par­alleled op­por­tun­ity to en­gage with top leg­al minds and stay ahead of the curve in EU com­pet­i­tion law.Should you have any ques­tions re­gard­ing this event, please con­tact us.*Please note that seats for the even­ing event at the BELvue Mu­seum are lim­ited. We will reach out to you to con­firm your seat once we have fi­nal­ised our guest list. Thank you for your un­der­stand­ing.

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