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“A competition authority should not resemble a pit-bull terrier, taking bigger and bigger chunks out of trespassers. A multi-headed competition watchdog more akin to Cerberus would surely lead to better-targeted enforcement and improved corporate compliance.” – Philip Marsden, director of the Competition Law Forum and senior research fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
Read Philip Marsden’s recent op-ed calling for change of the EC’s competition policy in the European Voice: “We need a watchdog with more than one response.” He joins other business and economic experts who continue to question the EC’s fining policy and lack of due process in competition cases. These should be lively topics when Europe’s top business, legal, and policy experts gather in a couple of weeks at the high-profile competition policy events in Brussels included below:
- GCR – Competition Law Review 2009 (16-17 November 2009): http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/_lbr/_conferences/_files/744-gcr_competition_law_review.pdf
- Business Europe – US Chamber of Commerce Joint Event on Competition Policy 2009 (19 November 2009): http://www.uschamber.com/NR/rdonlyres/e7dcry24jcvveo7ye4cfn6cdstktifx2hyhbegtmc22i7uth6ffwondo2ggpwzeq45wttgqxa4mq2kljwbt3bnwv7fe/1015draftprogrammecompetitionevent19november2.pdf
- IBC’s Advanced EC Competition Law Brussels 2009 (18-19 November 2009): http://www.iir-events.com/IIR-conf/LawCompliance/EventView.aspx?EventID=2347
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