The Pros and Cons of Standard Setting: Stockholm 12 November 2010
The Swedish Competition Authority's seminar "The Pros and Cons of Standard Setting" will be held in Stockholm on Friday November 12. Antitrust issues in relation to standard setting have attracted the attention of practitioners and academics in recent years and are currently high on the agenda in view of the Commission´s review of the guidelines on horizontal agreements.
Speakers this year are Tineke M. Egyedi from Delft University of Technology, Damien Geradin from Tilburg University, Richard J. Gilbert from UC Berkeley, Anne Layne-Farrar from LECG Consulting Chicago and Klaus M. Schmidt from University of Munich. Svend Albaek from DG Competition will be the moderator of the seminar.
The presentations will be commented by senior officials at NCAs, including Peter Freeman (Competition Commission, UK), Juan Delgado (National Competition Commission, Spain), Jörg Nothdurft (Bundeskartellamt, Germany), Jan Kees Winters (Netherlands Competition Authority) and Laure Durand-Viel (French Competition Authority).
Participation in the conference is free of charge. The conference language is English.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Arvid Fredenberg arvid.fredenberg@kkv.se
Spanish ACE Meeting: Madrid, 2nd November 2010
The V Meeting of the Association of Competition Economics in Spain (V ACE Spanish Meeting) will take place on November 2nd at the Fundación Rafael del Pino in Madrid.
Please find preliminary programme and information on the Spanish ACE Meeting
Should you need information on the SP-SP Public-Private Sector Research Center, IESE Business School,