Webcast Seminar - EU Commission's New Enforcement Policy in abuse of dominance proceedings with panel of speakers including DG Competition officials

On 28 January 2009, Steptoe & Johnson co-hosted a webcast on the EU Commission's New Enforcement Policy in abuse of dominance proceedings with a panel of speakers including DG Competition officials. Details appear below along with the presentation and recording of the webcast.

 Topics:

• How exclusionary abuses are looked at under the Article 82 EC Guidance and the U.S. DOJ Report on Section 2 of Sherman Act
• The economics underlying exclusionary abuses under the Article 82 EC Guidance
• Exclusionary abuses under national law – Implications of the Guidance

Panel Speakers:

• Lucas Peeperkorn, Senior Administrator, DG Competition, EU Commission
• Katja Viertio, Senior Administrator, DG Competition, EU Commission
• Rainer Nitsche, Managing Director, ESMT Competition Analysis
• Eckart Wagner, Partner, Oppenhoff & Partner
• Kenneth Ewing, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Moderated by Yves Botteman, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Click links to either view the slides or to watch the full webcast.

Click here for EU Competition briefing which discusses the new Guidance on enforcement priorities in relation to exclusionary abuses that the European Commission adopted on December 3, 2008.