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"Preface" [2013] ELECD 1174; in Lianos, Ioannis; Geradin, Damien (eds), "Handbook on European Competition Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) xiii

Book Title: Handbook on European Competition Law

Editor(s): Lianos, Ioannis; Geradin, Damien

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781782546092

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 8

Extract:

preface


European union (Eu) competition law has reached an age of maturity.
in its fifth decade of effective enforcement it looks very different in many
aspects from the frail newborn that came to life in 1962, after a long gesta-
tion process of four years, following the enactment of the competition law
provisions of the treaty of rome. perceived as a centralizing and liberal-
izing tool in the able hands of the European Commission, Eu competition
law has grown up to become an instrument at the disposal of the national
Competition authorities (nCa) and national courts of the Eu member
States, contributing largely to their emancipation from national centres of
power and the development of a true competition law culture in Europe.
Eu competition law has successfully incorporated sophisticated economic
thinking in the design and implementation of competition rules.
the corpus of jurisprudence produced each year by the European
and national courts as well as the decisional practice of the European
Commission and nCas illustrate the immense success of the competition
law `enterprise' in Europe. the influence of Eu competition law on the
competition law regimes of emergent jurisdictions as well as on the debate
over global convergence of competition law rules constitutes an additional
indication of the important progress accomplished so far in creating a legal
framework that promotes competition and the public interest in general.
we thought that these achievements should be celebrated by the com-
pilation of a volume examining critically all the different dimensions of
Eu ...