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Center for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (CIPCO)

ASCOLA Annual Conference 2024

ASCOLA Swiss Chapter organises in cooperation with CIPCO and CEDIDAC its third annual conference. It is dedicated to Swiss and European Competition Law. National and international regulators as well as academics and lawyers will assess major developments in CH-EU competition law. Panels include:

  • Breakfast with Competition Authorities
  • Major developments in the EU (Art. 101 and 102 TFEU, Merger Control)
  • Effects and Causality in Abuse Control
  • Structure and Control of Competition Watchdogs

Program: available here (PDF, 192 KB)

Location: University of Zurich, Kleine Aula RAA-G-01, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zurich

Date: 6 June 2024, 8.30am to 5.30pm

Organisation: Prof. Dr Damiano Canapa (University of Lausanne), Prof. Dr Peter Georg Picht (University of Zurich) and Dr Astrid Waser (Lenz & Staehelin)

Registration Fee: CHF 400 / 250 (ASCOLA Members and members of the administration) / 50 (PhD students and students)

Registration via CEDIDAC

Program

Hours  
8.30 Registration and Coffee
9.00 Welcome Address
9.15

Panel 1: Breakfast with the Competition Authorities
Lukas Cavada (Executive Coordinator for International Affairs at Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde), 
Patrik Ducrey (Director, Secretariat ComCo),
Silke Hossenfelder (Head of General Policy Division at Bundeskartellamt),
Linsey McCallum (Deputy Director-General at European Commission; remote)
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Panel 2: Major developments in the EU
  Merger Control
Thomas Janssens (Partner Freshfields)
David Mamane (Partner Schellenberg Wittmer)
  Art. 102 TFEU
Gustavo Olivieri (Professor at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Rome)
Mani Reinert (Partner Bär & Karrer)
  Art. 101 TFEU
Daniela Seeliger (Professor at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Partner Linklaters)
Dr Richard Stäuber (Partner Homburger)
12.45 Lunch Break
14.00

Panel 3: Effects and Causality in Abuse Control
Dr Simon Bangerter (Secretariat ComCo)
Florian Bien (Professor at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
15.00 Coffee Break
15.30 Panel 4: Structure and Control of Competition Watchdogs

Florence Aubry Girardin (President of the 2nd Division of public law at Swiss Federal Court),
Jürgen Breiler (Presiding Judge at Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf),
Isabelle Chabloz (Professor at Université de Fribourg),
Peter Freeman CBE, KC (hon) (Senior Advisor to the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal) 
Patrick L. Krauskopf (Professor at ZHAW School of Management and Law Winterthur, Chairman Agon Partners)
17.00 Concluding Remarks

 

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