Implementing the ECN+ Directive in Lithuania: Towards an Over-enforcement of Competition Law?

• Authors: Gintarė Surblytė-Namavičienė

Abstracts

FR

En 2018, la directive ECN+ a été adoptée pour conférer des pouvoirs renforcés aux autorités nationales de concurrence dans le cadre de l’application du droit de la concurrence. Cet article analyse comment les dispositions juridiques de la directive ECN+ ont déjà été transposées dans la loi lituanienne sur la concurrence et examine les modifications supplémentaires qui pourraient être nécessaires pour transposer intégralement la directive ECN+ dans le droit national. Il présente en détail les difficultés juridiques rencontrées lors de la mise en oeuvre de la directive susmentionnée et donne un avis critique sur certaines des modifications qui ont déjà été apportées.

EN

In 2018, the ECN+ Directive was issued with a goal to grant stronger powers to national competition authorities while enforcing competition law. This article analyses how the legal provisions of the ECN+ Directive have already been implemented in the Lithuanian Law on Competition, and considers what further changes may need to be made in order to fully implement the ECN+ Directive in the national law. It elaborates on the legal challenges while implementing the aforementioned Directive and provides a critical view on some of the amendments that have already been made.

Keywords

EN

ECN+ Directive; Lithuanian Law on Competition; commitment; decision; structural remedies; association of undertakings; parental liability; leniency; interim measures

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 173-204

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Gintarė Surblytė-Namavičienė

• Faculty of Law, Vilnius University

References

• Geradin, D. and Mattioli, E. (2017). The Transactionalization of EU Competition Law: A Positive Development? TILEC Discussion Paper No. DP 2017-035. Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3040306.
• Kalintiri, A. (2018). Revisiting Parental Liability in EU Competition Law. European Law Review, 43(2), 145–166.
• Wils, W.P.J. (2015). Ten Years of Commitment Decisions Under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003: Too Much of a Good Thing? Concurrences Journal 6th International Conference ‘New frontiers of antitrust’ (Paris, 15 June 2015). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2617580.

Identifiers

DOI

10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2019.12.20.7

Biblioteka Nauki

2159144