Questioning the Role of Competition Law in the 21st Century

MMag. Dr. Ranjana Andrea Achleitner; Eva Fischer; Ass.-Prof. Dr. Lena Hornkohl LL.M.; Mag. Dr. Bernadette Zelger LL.M.

doi:10.5771/9783748953647

Summary

Recent developments in digital markets and the EU's geopolitical landscape have arguably given renewed impetus to the process of regulating markets in the 21th century (DMA, Data Act, AI Act) and called for the application of all sorts of fields of law in dealing with crisis. The edited collection brings together various innovative proposals of young competition law scholars mapping out the new role traditional competition law plays in new markets and in times of crisis. The volume discusses both normative innovations, the scope of antitrust regulations, and the evolving objectives of antitrust enforcement. It also explores the interplay between regulatory law and state aid law as tools of crisis management.

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Publication year: 2025
Publication date: 14.12.2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7560-3054-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-5364-7
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Junges Kartellrecht
Volume: 2
Language: German
Pages: 365
Product type: Edited Book

1. Introduction No access
2. 1. Editors No access
  2. Authors No access
1. Silvia Retamales Morales
  1. A. Introduction No access
  2. 1. I. The Federal US No access
    2. II. The EU No access
    3. III. Summary: Competition law has not been neutral to social context No access
  3. 1. I. The Reconstruction and Development Program (“RDP”) No access
    2. II. Walmart/Massmart merger case No access
    3. III. Highlights from the Walmart/Massmart merger case No access
  4. 1. I. Learning from the South African experience No access
    2. II. Vision against the inclusion of public interest consideration in competition law No access
    3. III. Model for a preliminary competition law assessment including non-economic considerations No access
  5. E. Final remarks No access
2. Christiane Wakonig
  1. 1. A. Introduction No access
    2. 1. I. The Procedural Aspect of the Concept of Fairness No access
      2. 1. Fairness as an Implicit Property of Competition Law No access
        2. Fairness Through Competitive Process or as an Outcome of Competition No access
        3. The Right to a Fair Competition No access
      3. 1. Fairness From a Substantive Point of View No access
        2. Fairness as an Unwritten Meta Principle No access
    3. 1. I. How Austrian Competition Law Incorporates Fairness No access
      2. II. The Concept of Fairness in the Austrian Federal Cartel Act No access
      3. III. The Concept of Fairness in the Federal Act Against Unfair Competition No access
      4. IV. The Concept of Fairness in the Federal Fair Competitive Conditions Act No access
    4. 1. I. Procedural and Substantive Fairness Aspects No access
      2. 1. The Substantive Benchmark Characteristic of the Fairness Principle No access
        2. The Meta Level Character of the Fairness Principle No access
    5. E. Conclusion No access
3. Luca Graf, Giulia Sonderegger
  1. A. Introduction No access
  2. B. Importance of Art. 102 TFEU in the Context of Migrant Workers No access
  3. 1. I. The Concept of Undertaking No access
    2. 1. a) Labour Markets No access
        b) Geographical Scope No access
        c) Single Employer as an Own Labour Market No access
      2. a) Market Shares as a Proxy for Market Position No access
        b) Countervailing Worker Bargaining Power (or Lack Thereof) No access
        c) Unavoidable Trading Partner No access
        d) Market Conduct No access
    3. III. Further Requirements No access
  4. 1. I. Abuse qua Worker Welfare? No access
    2. II. Exploitative Abuse of Monopsony Power under Art. 102(a) TFEU No access
    3. 1. 1. Allocative Inefficiency in Labour Markets No access
      2. 2. Target Earners and the Supply of Labour No access
    4. 1. 1. Unfairness and (Economic) Value No access
      2. 2. Unfairness, Illegality, and Consent No access
    5. V. The Case for Enforcement for the Protection of the Most Vulnerable Workers No access
  5. E. Conclusion No access
1. Selcukhan Unekbas
  1. A. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 1. 1. Official investigations No access
      2. 2. Academic investigations No access
    2. 1. 1. Hostility toward competitiveness No access
      2. 2. Indirect approaches to the antitrust-competitiveness nexus No access
  3. 1. I. Recurrence No access
    2. II. Compatibility No access
  4. 1. IV. Philosophy No access
    2. V. Pragmatism No access
  5. D. Conclusions No access
2. Annika Stöhr
  1. A. Introduction No access
  2. B. Objectives and Genesis of the Instrument No access
  3. 1. I. Alphabet No access
    2. II. Meta No access
    3. III. Amazon No access
    4. IV. Apple No access
    5. V. Microsoft No access
  4. 1. I. Stage 1 No access
    2. II. Stage 2 No access
  5. E. Conclusion No access
3. Elaine Dunne
  1. A. Introduction No access
  2. B. The Competition Law Enforcement Framework of EU Regulation 1/2003 No access
  3. 1. I. The legal remedial framework No access
    2. II. Application of the legal framework in practice No access
    3. III. Proposed directions for future remedial practices No access
  4. 1. I. Constitutional Constraints Influencing Remedy Design No access
    2. II. Should the emphasis on competition law remedies decrease as regulation becomes more prevalent? No access
    3. III. Responsive Enforcement No access
    4. IV. Further Recommendations No access
  5. E. Conclusion No access
1. Nicole Deneka
  1. A. Introduction No access
  2. B. State aid law: general prohibition, exceptions and crisis adaptations No access
  3. 1. I. Financial crisis of 2007–2009 No access
    2. II. COVID-19 pandemic No access
    3. III. Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine No access
  4. 1. I. The aim of crisis frameworks No access
    2. II. Short-term objectives No access
    3. III. State aid distribution No access
    4. Procedural handling and monitoring No access
    5. E. Conclusion – finding the balance No access
2. Sophie Bohnert
  1. A. Introduction No access
  2. 1. I. The Shift in the Geopolitical Landscape No access
    2. II. The EU’s Competitiveness Challenge No access
  3. 1. I. On the Same Team No access
    2. 1. 1. Theories on Interaction between Competition and Trade No access
      2. 2. Competition and Free Movement in the Internal Market No access
      3. 3. Expanding the Argument: Parallels Between Free Movement and Foreign Trade No access
  4. 1. I. The Making of the ‘More Economic Approach’ No access
    2. II. The Purported Purity of the ‘More Economic Approach’ No access
    3. III. Implications of the ‘More Economic Approach’: Policy and Institutional ‘Siloing’ No access
  5. 1. I. Policy-Linking Clauses in the EU Treaties No access
    2. II. A New Enforcement Paradigm in the Making? No access
    3. III. How to ‘Remarry’ Competition and Trade No access
  6. F. Conclusion No access
3. Pierfrancesco Mattiolo
  1. A. Introduction No access
  2. 1. I. Notions: foreign subsidy, distortion No access
    2. II. Procedures and participation of private parties No access
    3. III. Possible outcomes No access
    4. IV. The balancing test: the Commission’s discretion in ‘considering other positive effects’ No access
  3. 1. 1. 1. A tool to gather data and inform other policies? No access
      2. 2. The notification: obligations and first data No access
      3. 3. The first in-depth investigation and decision: e&-PPF Telecom No access
    2. II. The EU Merger Regulation (EUMR): a refresher No access
    3. 1. 1. Before the FSR: tackling foreign subsidies in merger control No access
      2. 2. The assessments of the FSR and the EUMR compared No access
      3. 3. Procedural aspects: time and regimes of disclosure No access
  4. 1. I. The EU FDI Screening framework and the challenges for its Europeanisation No access
    2. II. Overlapping and interactions between the FSR and the (current) FDI screening framework No access
  5. E. An example of the overlapping between the EUMR, FDI screening and (in abstracto) the FSR: the Pirelli saga No access
  6. F. Conclusion: can the FSR be used to continue ‘policy with other means’? No access
1. Richard Bunworth
  1. A. Introduction No access
  2. 1. I. The social values of the EU No access
    2. II. Constitutional values to be incorporated No access
    3. III. Holistic constitutional lens No access
  3. 1. I. Regulatory race between the EU and the US No access
    2. II. Meaning and application of the Brussels Effect No access
  4. 1. I. Advantages for other jurisdictions No access
    2. II. A more seamless process than harmonisation and Member State application No access
  5. E. Developing countries and social values No access
  6. F. Globalised Norms in EU Competition Law No access
  7. G. Criticisms of the Brussels Effect No access
  8. H. Conclusion No access
2. Tamta Margvelashvili
  1. A. Introduction No access
  2. 1. 1. 1. The EU-Georgia Association Agreement: A Benchmark for Progress No access
      2. 2. Strategic autonomy: Georgia's Tailored Approach No access
      3. 3. Addressing Shortcomings No access
    2. 1. 1. The EU-Moldova Association Agreement: A Cartography for Advancement No access
      2. 2. Unpacking the Moldova’s Membership through Competition Policy Advancements No access
    3. III. Ukraine’s Pathway No access
    4. IV. Spotlight on Accession Negotiations No access
  3. 1. 1. 1. Georgian Approach No access
      2. 2. Ukrainian Approach No access
      3. 3. Moldovan Approach No access
    2. II. Pursuing EU Integration with (In)adequate Digital Competition Enforcement No access
  4. D. Conclusion No access