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Programme
11th September, 2008 |
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| 19.30 | Conference reception at the Heuriger Fuhrgassl-Huber
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12th September, 2008 |
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| 08.15 | Registration and Coffee | |
| 09.00 | Opening remarks Theodor Thanner, Director General, Federal Competition Authority, Austria |
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| 09.15 | Introduction Bernhard Heitzer, President, Bundeskartellamt, Germany William E. Kovacic, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission, USA |
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| 10.15 | Coffee break | |
| 10.45 | Panel 1: RPM – Enforcement and economic reasoning Moderator: Theodor Thanner, Director General, Federal Competition Authority, Austria Speakers:
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| 12.00 | Discussion | |
| 12.30 | Lunch break | |
| 14.00 | Panel 2: Loopholes and alternatives to RPM – Experiences of practitioners Moderator: Patrick Krauskopf, Deputy Director, Competition Commission, Switzerland
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| 15.00 | Discussion | |
| 15.30 | Coffee break | |
| 16.00 | Panel 3: Is there a need for change in Europe? Moderator: William E. Kovacic, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission, USA
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| 16.45 | Conclusions Theodor Thanner, Director General, Federal Competition Authority, Austria |
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| 17.00 | End of conference | |
Conference language: English
Speakers
> David G. ANDERSON
> Amelia FLETCHER
> Luc GYSELEN
> Bernhard HEITZER
> René J.P. JANSEN
> Felix Michael KLEMENT
> William E. KOVACIC
> Patrick KRAUSKOPF
>Robert NERUDA
> Konrad OST
> Lucas P.M. PEEPERKORN
> Anne PERROT
> László SZAKADÁT
> Andreas REINDL
> Theodor THANNER
> Volker VIECHTBAUER
David G. ANDERSON
Dave Anderson is a partner in the Brussels office of Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP and a member of the firm’s EU and Competition Law team. He is a US national and is qualified in both the US and UK and is on the EU list of the Brussels Bar. His practice focuses on EU and international antitrust and regulatory aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, cartels and abuses of dominant positions. Dave also advises on EU regulatory law specialising in the transport sector. He has published numerous articles on competition law and is frequently quoted in the print and broadcast media on competition law matters. Dave is recognised as a leading competition lawyer by Chambers, Legal 500 and Legal Business.
Amelia FLETCHER
Dr Amelia Fletcher has been Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading for just over 6 years. She leads a team with responsibilty for economic policy on enforcment, economic research, evaluation of impact and competition advocacy to Government. She is also Head of Profession for the 50 or so economists working at the OFT, and is responsible for ensuring that the economic work carried out within the OFT is rigorous and state-of-the-art.
Prior to the OFT, she spent several years as an economic consultant in London specialising in antitrust, at Frontier Economics and before this London Economics. She has a doctorate from Oxford University, where her thesis was on economic theories of self-regulation.
Luc GYSELEN
Mr. Gyselen joined Arnold & Porter in July 2004 after twenty years of public service at various EU institutions. He spent most of his time at the European Commission, where he was a member of the Legal Service in the early years of his career and later held several senior positions in the Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP). His career at the Commission was interrupted by a three year secondment to the European Court of Justice where he was a law clerk to the Belgian judge.
Mr. Gyselen has published extensively on a broad range of antitrust issues, including on the Art. 82 EC case law on rebates and on abuse of dominance in general.
Mr. Gyselen holds an LLB degree and a bachelor degree in Philosophy from the K.U. Leuven (Belgium) and LLM degrees from the College of Europe and Harvard Law School. He is admitted to the Brussels Bar.
Bernhard HEITZER
Dr Bernhard Heitzer is President of the Bundeskartellamt since 3 April 2007. Prior to this appointment, he was President of the German Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle (BAFA) (Federal Office of Economics and Export Control) for three years. Previously, he held various positions in the Federal Ministry of Economics, which he joined in 1977. From 1996 to 2004 he headed various sub-departments, including “General Policy Issues and Sectoral Issues of Industrial Policy” and “General Energy Policy Issues, Mineral Oil, Economic Issues of Climate Protection”. From 1991 to 1996 he headed the sections “General Economic Policy Issues/New Federal States” and “Economic Research/Deregulation/Debureaucratisation”. From 1987 to 1989 he was Personal Adviser to Federal Economics Minister Dr. Martin Bangemann. Dr. Heitzer gained a degree in Economics at the University of Regensburg and earned a doctorate in Economics from the University of Bielefeld.
René J.P. JANSEN
Since July 2005, René Jansen is a Member of the Board of the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa). As from 1997, he has fulfilled multiple positions within the Authority (Director of the Merger Control Department, Deputy Director-General and Director of the Antitrust Department, Acting Director-General). René Jansen studied Labour and Organisational Sociology. From 1986 he worked for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, taking up several positions in the field of social security policy. In 1994 he joined the Ministry of Economic Affairs as Head of the Competition Unit. In this position he was involved in policy issues and the implementation of the Economic Competition Act, the forerunner of the current Competition Act.
Felix Michael KLEMENT
Felix Michael Klement is partner of Wildmoser/Koch & Partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH, managing the Vienna office for more than four years. His practise focuses on competition law and joint ventures in the Russian Federation und Ukraine. He is serving as chairman in a number of supervisory boards of Austro- Russian and Ukrainian industrial joint ventures. He has published numerous articles in the fields of competition, take-over and related corporate law. He was clerk at the Constitutional Court of Austria.
He has a doctorate of law from the University of Vienna and a MBA degree from University of Technology, Vienna, where his thesis was on economic aspects of the SIEC-Test.
He is admitted to the Austrian bar.
William E. KOVACIC
William E. Kovacic was designated to serve as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on March 30, 2008, by President George W. Bush. Kovacic was previously sworn in as a Commissioner in January 2006, following his nomination by the President and confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Prior to his appointment, Kovacic was the E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law at George Washington University Law School. He was the FTC’s General Counsel from 2001 through the end of 2004. Kovacic earlier worked at the Commission from 1979 to 1983, first with the Bureau of Competition and later as an attorney advisor. After leaving the FTC in 1983, Kovacic was an associate with the office of Bryan Cave until joining the George Mason University School of Law in 1986. Since 1992, Kovacic has served as an adviser on antitrust and consumer protection issues to the governments of Armenia, Benin, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guyana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Panama, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.
Patrick KRAUSKOPF
Mr. Patrick Krauskopf is the Deputy Director of the Swiss Competition Commission. His Product Market Department handles all aspects of competition law relating to the production/trade of consumer and capital goods. Additionally, he heads the International Affairs Department. Mr. Krauskopf is one of the authors of the Swiss Cartel Act and was responsible for drafting the new guidelines on vertical restraints. Mr. Krauskopf holds a Ph.D. in law from Fribourg University and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He is a Swiss Attorney-at-Law and member of the New York State Bar. He teaches commercial law and competition law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. Mr. Krauskopf worked in private practice and clerked for a Justice at the Supreme Court. He is the co-author of a practice manual on competition.
Robert NERUDA
Robert Neruda is the director of the Competition Section of the Czech competition authority (the Office for the Protection of Competition) dealing with both antitrust and merger issues. He worked for the competition authority during 2000 – 2003, as well, at its international department, as a director of Analysis Department and as a deputy director for mergers. In 2004 and 2005, he served as an assistant to the judge at the Czech Supreme Administrative Court. After his comeback to the Office in late 2005, he has been member of the appellate committee in the area of public procurement and he was the chairman of the appellate committee for antitrust and mergers, as well.
Konrad OST
Konrad Ost, Dr. jur (Heidelberg), LL.M. (Cambridge), is since 2004 Head of Unit for German and European Competition Law in the Bundeskartellamt (General Policy Division) where he is dealing with the modernisation of European competition law (e.g. the Art. 82 EC-debate, private enforcement and the block exemption regulations), with the subsequent revision of national competition law and with the ECN. Before joining the General Policy Division, he worked in the litigation department and in a case-handling division dealing with mechanical engineering products. He wrote articles on private competition law enforcement and antitrust procedure and is co-author of a yearbook on competition law practice and jurisprudence (Hossenfelder/Töllner/Ost, Kartellrechtspraxis und Kartellrechtsprechung).
Lucas P.M. PEEPERKORN
After having studied economics and political science at the University of Amsterdam, Luc worked as an assistant professor at the Erasmus University Rotterdam where he specialised in industrial economics, public finance and welfare economics. In 1991 he joined DG Competition of the European Commission, where since 1995 he has been dealing with general policy issues. He was part of the team responsible for the review of EC competition policy towards vertical agreements and the main author of the rules that entered into force in 2000. He was also the author of the new De Minimis Notice adopted in 2001. Subsequently he was member of the team responsible for the review of the Transfer of Technology Block Exemption Regulation and one of the main authors of the new rules that entered into force in 2004. Currently he is responsible for the policy review of Article 82 and one of the main authors of the Discussion Paper on the Application of Article 82 to Exclusionary Abuses. In addition he is responsible for the recently started review of the Vertical Restraints Block Exemption Regulation and Vertical Restraints Guidelines.
Anne PERROT
Anne Perrot is Vice-Chair at the french Conseil de la Concurrence since October 2004. She is the president of the Association of Competition Economics. She was previously full professor at University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne.
Anne Perrot received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Economics for which she was awarded prizes by the Association Française de Sciences Economiques and the Chancellerie des Universités.
She was a member of the EAGCP working with the chief economist team at DG Comp during the years 2003-2005. Anne's research fields include industrial economics, competition policy, regulation, and network economics.
She is co-editor of economics journals, like Economie et Prévision and Competition Policy International.
Andreas REINDL
Andreas Reindl is the Executive Director of the Fordham Competition Law Institute, and a consultant to the OECD’s Competition Division. Prior to joining Fordham, Mr. Reindl was Principal Administrator in the OECD where he worked on competition law enforcement issues and international cooperation, as well as technical assistance projects. Mr. Reindl has also practiced U.S. and European antitrust law with the Washington, D.C. Office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Mr. Reindl teaches courses on European and international antitrust, and antitrust and intellectual property at Fordham Law School. He has also taught at the University of Michigan Law School and the American University Washington College of Law. Mr. Reindl has published in the areas of antitrust and intellectual property law.
László SZAKADÁT
László Szakadát is member of the Competition Council of the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) . He is an economist. He took his post in 2004 for a six years term once renewable. Before joining to the Competition Council he had been an associate professor at the Corvinus University Budapest where he gave lectures on microeconomics and industrial organization.
Theodor THANNER
On July 1st, 2007, Mr. Thanner was appointed as Director General of the Austrian Federal Competition Authority (BWB). Prior to joining the BWB, he was, amongst others, Head of the Directorate General for Legal Affairs at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and fulfilled multiple positions at the Federal Ministry of Defence and the Federal Chancellery. Mr. Thanner studied law at the University of Salzburg. He is member of, amongst others, the "Oberster Patent- und Markensenat" (Court of appeal concerning patent and trademark issues) and author of numerous publications concerning constitutional and administrative law.
Volker VIECHTBAUER
Mag. Dr. iur. Volker Viechtbauer LL.M. (Harvard) has been the Head of the Legal & HR Department for Red Bull GmbH Austria since 1995. He studied law at the University of Linz and Harvard Law School. He earned his graduate degree in law from the University of Linz in 1990, and two years later, in 1992, he received his Master of Law from Harvard Law School. In 1995 he was awarded his Doctor of Law from the University of Linz. His dissertation topic was “Arbitration in Russia”. Dr. Volker Viechtbauer is a Council Member of the European Food Law Association (EFLA) and Representative of the Red Bull GmbH at the International Life Science Institute (ILSI).
