Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Patrick Hubert, Marie Leppard, Olivier Lécroart
This book is the first one meant for the people involved in operational situations in companies. The purpose of this book is to make them understand the rules and risks of Competition Law while enabling them to understand its logic.
A Review from the Perspective of University-Industry R&D Cooperation
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Mario Cisneros
State funding constitutes an important tool to promote innovation by creating links between industry, universities and R&D institutions. In this context, the development of a legal framework that promotes an efficient use of State aid in R&D cooperation represents an important challenge for the EU.
Book | 2nd edition 2014 | Europe | Norbert Reich, Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz, Peter Rott, Klaus Tonner
In recent years, EU consumer law has been subject to spectacular decisions by the European Court of Justice, with important consequences for the private law of Member States. Currently, it is under scrutiny by the EC Commission, which has just published a proposal for the revision of important aspects of the EU consumer law acquis. The authors have taken a broad horizontal approach at the European acquis, thereby reflecting on the history, the achievements and also the shortcomings of EC law.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Marc De Vos, Philippe Culliford
Gender quotas for company boards are becoming a totemic issue of gender diversity policy in today’s labour market. This book analyses the EU proposal to make such quotas obligatory and brings together the experiences of countries that have, to various degrees, taken the road towards formalising gender balance in the board room.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | United Kingdom | Carlos Esplugues, José Luis Iglesias Buhigues, Guillermo Palao Moreno
Mediation is becoming an increasingly important tool for resolving civil and commercial disputes. The European Directive 2008/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21.5.2008 on certain aspects of mediation in civil and commercial matters prescribes a set of minimum common rules on mediation for all EU Member States with the exception of Denmark.
Book | 1st edition 2014 | Europe | Marco Loos, Marco B.M. Loos, Ilse Samoy
Differences in contract law and the additional transaction costs and complexity they generate in cross-border transactions dissuade a considerable number SMEs from expanding into markets of other Member States. These differences are also said to limit competition in the internal market.
Book | 1st edition 2013 | Europe | Jacques Derenne, Massimo Merola, José Rivas
With the contribution of EU officials, practitioners and academics, this book analyses the impact of the financial and economic crisis on the enforcement of competition law (antitrust, merger control, State aid law, trade and industrial policies issues.
Book | 1st edition 2013 | Europe | Ignace Claeys, Régine Feltkamp
With the 186 articles of the Common European Sales Law the European Commission proposes an optional legal framework that covers the entire lifecycle of sales contracts and contracts for the supply of digital content, as well as related services. This book is the first to delve deeply into the content of the CESL and to analyse it.
Book | 1st edition 2013 | Luxembourg | Christophe Boyer, Isabelle Corbisier, Gilles Dusemon, Patrick Mischo, Katia Panichi, Thibaut Partsch, Catherine Pogorzelski, Pierre Schleimer, Laurent Schummer, Alain Steichen
Un des premiers ouvrages sur la réforme de la société en commandite au Grand-Duché du Luxembourg. La commandite vise à proposer une alternative intéressante pour la structuration de fonds ou d’acquisition de tout type d’actifs en joint-venture.
This volume reproduces the papers presented at the annual Concurrences Journal's conference held on 15th February 2010 at the French Parliament in Paris.
This volume reproduces the papers presented at the annual Concurrences Journal's conference held on 10th February 2012. Four topics are addressed : Compliance Programs, Procedural Autonomy, Prescription Markets, and, Object vs. anticompetitive effect.
Book | 1st edition 2012 | Belgium | Kris Boschmans, Sylvain Bouyon, Frédéric Lernoux, Isabelle Martin, Didier Van Caillie
Internationalisation offers real growth perspectives to SMEs. This book supports this dynamics and informs about the opportunities and barriers, the risks and covering tools, the management processes,payment and funding methods as well as public measures.
Book | 1st edition 2012 | World | Jean-François Bellis, José Maria Beneyto
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the 2010 reform of the rules applicable to vertical restraints following the entry into force of Regulation No. 330/2010.
Book | 2nd edition 2011 | Europe | Stefan Grundmann
Over the last decade, European company law has been re-written completely. Virtually no EU measure remained unchanged and most of them have undergone fundamental reform. This book discusses the EC/EU law first including all instruments through which it is transposed into the national law systems. However, where no EC/EU law exists, a comparative law discussion and policy aspects, namely law and economics, fill the gaps. The whole organism of (limited liability) company law is thus covered.
Improving the use of economic analysis in public policy and legislation
Book | 1st edition 2011 | Europe | Andrea Renda
The use of economics in public policy, in the form of ex ante Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), is strongly advocated by international organizations such as the OECD and the World Bank. In the US and the EU, hundreds of RIAs are produced every year to justify public intervention in the form of regulation. But reality shows that in many other countries the adoption and implementation of this tool has been patchy at best.
Book | 1st edition 2010 | Europe | Sarah Schoenmaekers
This book discusses and compares the different legal and economic aspects of the regulation of architects in Belgium and the Netherlands . It also discusses EU legislation and case law on the free movement of architects in and to the European Union.
This book makes a valuable contribution to the current discussion regarding the private enforcement of competition law, particularly through the use of group litigation. Forms of group litigation are debated not only at the European level, but in countries worldwide. Policy makers, practitioners and academics alike can draw relevant insights about the potentials and pitfalls of group litigation mechanisms.
Book | 1st edition 2010 | Europe | Margherita Poto
This book provides an overview of the role of the independent administrative authorities assigned to the oversight of financial markets, by outlining both the historic and economic background, the warp and the weft of the European system, and where these authorities have emerged and now operate.
