Competition Law – New Tendencies, New Tools and New Enforcement Methods from an EC and Polish Perspective

Abstract

The Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC), a research centre of the College of Europe, held on 13 March 2009 in Warsaw its first Natolin competition law conference entitled ‘New Tendencies, New Tools and New Enforcement Methods from an EC and Polish Perspective’.The conference was opened by Professor Paul Demaret, the Rector of the College of Europe, who started his speech by introducing GCLC and explaining the objective of its activities. He clarified that GCLC is dedicated to the promotion of rigorous legal and economic analysis of competition policy reforms both in the EU and globally. He stressed also that GCLC is mean to provide a discussion forum for academics, practitioners and enforcement officers in the antitrust field. After some preliminary remarks, the conference and its programme were presented by Jacques Bourgeois, the President of GCLC and a professor at the College of Europe and Massimo Merola, a member of GCLC’s Executive Committee and a professor at the College of Europe.