The Evolving Governance of EU Competition Law in a Time of Disruptions

A Constitutional Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5099-5183-3
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

This book develops a timely analysis of the complex trends and transformations emerging in EU competition law in the current turbulent times.

Repeated economic crises, the climate emergency, digitalisation, and geopolitical and democratic threats are all having profound societal and economic effects on the EU. In light of its fundamental role in the Treaties, EU competition law has been called upon to play an important role in responding to this state of 'turbulence'. This brings about significant governance and constitutional challenges, firstly by questioning how the governance of EU competition law is being transformed to respond and adapt. Secondly, these crisis-induced transformations probe the logic and constitutional limits of EU competition law within the framework of EU law.

This collection brings together EU institutional and competition lawyers to reflect on the governance and constitutional challenges emerging from the post-modernisation evolution of EU competition law against the backdrop of the recent multiple crises in the EU. The essays focus on the substantive and procedural developments across the three main policy areas of EU competition law: antitrust, merger control and State aid. EU constitutional and competition lawyers will be interested in this important new collection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colombo, Carlo Maria

Wright, Kathryn

Eliantonio, Mariolina

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht, Währungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Öffentliches Recht (inkl. EMRK)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Abbreviations
Table of Case Law
Table of Commission Decisions and Decisions of National Competition Authorities
Table of Legislation

Foreword
Suzanne Kingston

Introduction
Carlo Maria Colombo, Kathryn Wright and Mariolina Eliantonio

PART I: POWERS AND AIMS OF EU COMPETITION LAW

1. EU Competition Law and Democracy in the Shadow of Rule of Law Backsliding

Kati Cseres

2. Digital Technology Disruptions and Competition Law Enforcement: A Stress Test for the Existing Governance and Enforcement Frameworks?

Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel

3. The Clash of Titans: EU Competition and State Aid Law and the Impact of the EU Green Deal

Alicja Sikora-Kaleda

4. From Crisis Cartels to COVID-19 State Aid and Cooperation: The Non-Exceptionality of Crisis Management by EU Competition Law
Francisco Costa Cabral

PART II: ACTORS AND DYNAMICS IN EU COMPETITION LAW
5. Levelling the Playing Field: EU Regulatory Extension Through Technocratic Cooperation

Kathryn Wright

6. Shaping the EU's Competition Law and Policy: Space for Multiple Actors?

Giorgio Monti
7. The Role of Companies in the Strategic Turn of EU Competition Law

Fernando Pastor-Merchante
8. The Response of EU Courts to Society's Digital and Green Challenges in the Field of Competition and State Aid

Phedon Nicolaides

PART III: INSTRUMENTS AND PROCEDURES IN A MULTILEVEL COMPETITION LAW LANDSCAPE
9. Repurposing Administrative Procedures to Meet Novel Challenges in EU Competition Law
Filipe Brito Bastos
10. Soft Law in EU Competition and State aid: an Imperfect Solution to Grand Regulatory Challenges

Oana Stefan
11. Unpacking Multilevel Elements in Digital Markets: Informing Effective Enforcement and Remedial Design in EU Competition Law
Maria Ioannidou
12. Governing the Green Transition Through State Aid Control

Carlo Maria Colombo and Matteo Bonelli
13. Creative Compliance and the Politicisation of EU State Aid Implementation in Times of Crisis Nicole Lindstrom

Conclusions

Carlo Maria Colombo, Kathryn Wright and Mariolina Eliantonio

Über Autor(innen)

Wright, Kathryn
Kathryn Wright is Senior Lecturer in law at the University of York, UK.

Colombo, Carlo Maria
Carlo Maria Colombo is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Sciences Po, France, and Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Eliantonio, Mariolina
Mariolina Eliantonio is Professor in European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Carlo Maria Colombo is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Sciences Po, France, and Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
Kathryn Wright is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of York, UK.
Mariolina Eliantonio is Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.