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This book offers an in-depth legal analysis concerning the notion of restrictions of competition, be it by object restrictions according to Article 101 TFEU or prima facie abusive practices treated according to the form-based approach under Article 102 TFEU. Although extensive research has been conducted on the notion of object infringements of competition, there is no systematic review of this topic covering both competition provisions, namely Articles 101 and 102 TFEU. This book fills that gap by providing an extensive analysis of the relevant case law, while also covering new phenomena stemming from the digital revolution and its impact on the functioning of traditional markets.In this regard, particular attention is paid to the concept of prima facie infringements and the analysis necessary for their successful establishment. Object restrictions and object abuses are not infringements per se in the sense that they can be established in the abstract and without consideration of the actual legal and economic context (context analysis) within which a measure is implemented. Hence, the indispensable context analysis is informed by the potential economic effects of a given measure.Examining the changes regarding the economic reality and how markets work in the digital economy, this book makes a valuable contribution to the current debate about whether our competition law toolkit is fit and proper to deal with the challenges posed by digitalization. The author argues that while there is a coherent framework covering both Treaty competition provisions as regards object restrictions of competition, the increased use of an actual effect analysis and thus the concept of a restriction of competition by effect represents an underestimated (and underused) weapon for combating measures that are ambivalent from a competition law perspective as regards their (anticompetitive or non-detrimental) nature in a digital economy.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of how EU state aid law is shaping the future of EU investment policy in a global context. It examines in detail how EU state aid policy and practice interact with the EU investment regime on the internal market and affect the external trade relations of the Member States and the EU alike. The debate this book engages in concerns competence, i.e., which body delineates the scope of state aid law and policy (now and in the future) when and where it intersects and collides with another distinct legal field: investment protection. Pursuing a doctrinal approach to the topic in the light of EU law and international law, the book analyses the interaction of the EU's trade, state aid and investment policy. This is done by posing the following research question: How is EU state aid law shaping the future of EU investment policy in a global context? Further, the book puts forward three corresponding arguments. First, this influence can be seen in the EU's incorporation of clauses promoting fair competition and state aid policy in international trade agreements. Second, EU state aid law and policy contributed to recent internal developments which led the Member States to terminate their bilateral agreements with each other (intra-EU BITs) by the end of 2019. Third, the EU has been working to replace the BITs between its Member States and third countries (extra-EU BITs) with its own trade agreements, which are aligned with EU legislation. This combined analysis of EU law and international law yields a number of interesting conclusions.The book addresses a highly topical and rapidly evolving area of EU law and international investment law. It is also the first book to provide a comprehensive approach to the interplay of state aid rules and EU investment policy internally and externally, i.e., within the EU and on a global scale. As such, it closes an important gap in the extant literature on international and EU law. 

This book deals with banking integrations, which are now becoming crucial not only because of the increased number of economic integrations, but also in view of the qualitative improvement of such banking integrations. It compares the European Union (EU), as the most successful union, which was able to move from a common financial market to the prime example of banking integration; the Banking Union; and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) as a relatively young one but with several of the prerequisites for becoming an influential union, and which was established by five countries - the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, and the Kyrgyz Republic - in 2015. The key research question is whether the single market in banking services or a banking union is an achievable goal or merely a utopia. In this regard, the book reveals the bottlenecks and obstacles that the EU and EAEU policymakers faced during the difficult process of establishing a single market and banking union. However, along with the problems of banking integration, it identifies many peculiarities of the harmonization of banking legislation among the EU Member States. Recognizing and acknowledging these peculiarities can be very beneficial for young unions and help to guide their integration processes. In particular, the book concludes that evolutionary (not revolutionary) harmonization is required in order for the EAEU to become a full-fledged union.

Trading systems - the WTO, regional economic integrations and federal systems - are all based on the same dichotomy of free trade and local public interest: they generally prohibit the constituent parties (states) from restricting trade, but exempt them from this limitation if the restriction is warranted by a legitimate local end.

Part I General Aspects of the Cross-border Mergers Directive - EU Perspectives.- An Overview of the Cross-border Mergers Directive.- Cross-border Mergers to implement Reincorporations in the EU: An Essay on the Uncertain Features of Companies'' Mobility.-  An Empirical Research on Cross-border Mergers at EU Level.- Alternatives to Cross-border Mergers in the EU: Why Share Purchase Agreements Remain More Popular?.- Part II The Relationship of the Cross-border Mergers Directive with other Areas of Law.- Unions'' Freedom to establish and provide Services: A Balance of Power in Cross-border Mergers?.- Tax Mergers Directive: Basic Conceptualisation.- With and Without Prejudice: on the Ease of Cross-border Mergers for Large Multinational Firms and SMEs in the Context of Competition Law.- Cross-border Mergers and Disclosure of Inside Information.- Cross-border Mergers and Cross-border Takeovers.- The Role of Litigation in Cross-border Mergers.- Shareholders'' (Derivative) Suits Against Corporate Directors, Following Cross-border Mergers: A Functioning Remedy Within the EU?.- Civil Procedure Harmonization in Cross-border Mergers.- Part III National Experiences from the Implementation of the Directive in the Company Law of some Member States.- Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions in France: Towards a more Facilitated Regime?.- Cross-border Mergers - the Danish Experiences.-Experiences from the Implementation of the Cross-border Mergers Directive in Spain.- Cross-border Mergers Directive and its Impact in the UK.- The Protection of Minority Shareholders in Cross-border Mergers: The Case of Italy.- The Implementation of the Cross-border Mergers Directive in Luxembourg - A Critical Assessment.- Implementation of the Cross-border Mergers Directive in the Netherlands: Main Characteristics and some Experience.- The Implementation of the Cross-border Mergers Directive (2005/56/EC) in Germany - A Story of Insufficiencies and (Better) Alternatives.-Experiences from the Implementation of the Cross-border Mergers Directive in Greece and Cyprus.-Appraisal Rights in the US and the EU.

Trading systems - the WTO, regional economic integrations and federal systems - are all based on the same dichotomy of free trade and local public interest: they generally prohibit the constituent parties (states) from restricting trade, but exempt them from this limitation if the restriction is warranted by a legitimate local end.

This book examines corruption in public procurement in three Member States of the EU, reviewing their different approaches to combating corruption, and the extent to which the transparency principle is applied in their procurement systems.

The book surveys the enforcement of EU law through the lens of damages claims for violations of EU public procurement rules.

A broad range of welfare services are analysed, including public healthcare and educational services, various social services, and public utilities such as transport and public broadcasting.

This volume collects papers that explore institutionalisation in contemporary transatlantic relations. The papers assess whether contemporary transatlantic relations call for a different approach to global governance with a heightened emphasis on institutionalisation.

In recent years, there has been a decentralisation of the enforcement of the EU competition law provisions, Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

This book presents a critical analysis of the rules on the contents and effects of contracts included in the proposal for a Common European Sales Law (CESL).

This volume collects papers that explore institutionalisation in contemporary transatlantic relations. The papers assess whether contemporary transatlantic relations call for a different approach to global governance with a heightened emphasis on institutionalisation.