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Pace, Lorenzo Federico --- "Introduction to the Research Project and its Results" [2011] ELECD 290; in Pace, Federico Lorenzo (ed), "European Competition Law: The Impact of the Commission’s Guidance on Article 102" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: European Competition Law: The Impact of the Commission’s Guidance on Article 102

Editor(s): Pace, Federico Lorenzo

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848447738

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: Introduction to the Research Project and its Results

Author(s): Pace, Lorenzo Federico

Number of pages: 7

Extract:

1. Introduction to the research project
and its results
Lorenzo Federico Pace

1 INTRODUCTION

This volume brings together all the contributions to the seminars held
between March and May of 2009 at the Universities of Molise and Rome
`La Sapienza' on the 2009 Guidance on the European Commission's
enforcement priorities in applying Article 82 of the EC Treaty (Article
102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: TFEU).
The research was organised and financed within the framework of the
Jean Monnet `European Union and Competition Law' programme (www.
european-law.it), of which I am the Director.
Because the contributions were prepared in 2009, most of them do not
take account of the changes occasioned by the Lisbon Treaty (in particular
the changes to the numbering of the Treaty articles).


2 THE OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT

The results of the research project have a value that goes well beyond that
of a simple commentary on the 2009 Guidance. The project had three dif-
ferent objectives.
In the first place, one aim was to provide a critical commentary by
eminent scholars from various member states on the Commission's
Guidance. In particular, something which emerged, and which for me is
significant, is that the modification of the criteria for the application of
Article 102 TFEU is not simply an issue of interpretation. Quite the oppo-
site: these modifications, along with those contained in the Commission's
Communication on the interpretation of Article 101 TFEU1 by changing


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