Friends & folks around the globe, it is this time of the year again! In the past years, it became a tradition of this blog to use the run-up to Christmas Eve for – what we call – “Adventskalender”. Every day in December up to the 24th, we have a new treat for you in this blog, a little special gift for you, our beloved readers. It is the #AntitrustAdventCalendar! This year, we take you to a photo tour of…
After five months and nearly 20 contributions from academia and practitioners in our series D’Kart Spotlights: AGENDA 2025, we turn off the spotlight. The occasion for this spotlight project was the AGENDA 2025, with which the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) presented an outline for the reform of antitrust law. The draft bill for the Competition Enforcement Act – (11th amendment of the law against restraints on competition (GWB) – was published yesterday. In addition to…
Das Institut für Kartellrecht der HHU Düsseldorf (IKartR) lud am 5. und 6. September zum mittlerweile fünften Mal zum Doktorandenseminar im Kartellrecht ein und setzte damit eine Reihe fort, die als Tradition bezeichnet werden kann. In diesem Jahr konnte das Seminar nach zwei Corona-Jahren erstmals wieder traditionsgemäß im Haus der Universität in der Düsseldorfer Innenstadt abgehalten werden. Philipp Offergeld, Nils Overhoff und Severin Stratmann berichten. Ein Wochenanfang in Düsseldorf mit Kartellrecht fühlt sich an wie ein Wochenende Mit diesem Motto begannen Rupprecht Podszun und Christian…
Half of the 2022 has already passed. So Christmas is practically just around the corner. Well, maybe not just, but before everyone leaves for their summer holidays, let’s take a brief look back & ahead. In Germany, lecture periods in Summer term are now ending, hopefully, Corona is, too, and for September we have exciting events in stock at our Institute! Düsseldorf open seminar for doctoral candidates in competition law On 5 and 6 September 2022, doctoral students of all…
The German Federal Cartel Office has once again invited the best of the best from the competition community to Berlin for the International Cartel Conference (IKK). Sven Giegold, Secretary of State in the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK), gave an ambitious speech about his plans for Germany’s and Europe’s future in the field of competition policy. D-Kart has kindly been provided with the full text from his speech, we document it here – not least…
The Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (now: BMWK) has presented an ambitious competition policy agenda (you can find it here). It is a guideline for the competition policy of the legislative period, a preview of the next GWB amendment and of goals to be advocated at the European level. In the agenda, the BMWK emphasises that a modern competition policy can only be developed in a participatory process. That is why we at D’Kart would like to…
High-ranking visitor in Bonn: The new German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck made his “inaugural visit” to the Federal Cartel Office in Bonn today, Monday, February 21, 2022. Habeck is the first Green minister to hold this office. He was accompanied by State Secretary Sven Giegold and Head of Department Philipp Steinberg – Giegold, a high-profile thinker of the Green Party, moved to Berlin from the European Parliament, and had previously dealt with competition policy….
Following the bi-annual tradition the EU Competition Conference was held again this year – not in Brussels but instead all over Europe. Competition law practitioners submerged in the virtual world to discuss the latest developments in EU Competition Law – Patrick Hauser and Lisa Pawlak have the details. Name of Event: EU Competition Conference Topic: Latest developments and upcoming challenges in key areas of EU competition law, especially the “new” Art. 22 EUMR referral regime in merger control, the reform of EU rules…
Am 28. September 2021 fand die neueste Ausgabe des berühmt-berüchtigten Düsseldorfer Doktorandenseminars im Kartellrecht statt. Philipp Offergeld und Mykyta Shchupak berichten über die aus ihrer Sicht kurzweilige, gelungene Veranstaltung. Das Institut für Kartellrecht der HHU Düsseldorf (IKartR) lud am 28. September zum mittlerweile vierten Mal zum Doktorandenseminar im Kartellrecht und setzte damit eine Reihe fort, die mittlerweile wohl als Tradition bezeichnet werden kann. Aufgrund der unsicheren Planungslage wurde die Veranstaltung nicht im Haus der Universität in der Düsseldorfer Innenstadt abgehalten, sondern über Zoom. Das Team des…
What a year! We are getting close to the end of 2020 (and some say: better so), but obviously, we still have our DECEMBER SPECIAL for you: the Antitrust Advent Calendar! To review the year in competition law, D’Kart asked personalities from the antitrust community all over the world to answer the following question: What has been the most significant competition law case or competition law development in your country in 2020? But we did not leave it at this….