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CONFERENCE - 16 DECEMBRE 2019

The Liege Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII), Brussels School of Competition (BSC) and Association pour l'Etude du Droit de la Concurrence (AEDC/VSMR) have the pleasure to invite you to the jointly organized conference A New "Consensus" on Competition Policy in Digital Markets?, which will take place on Monday 16 December 2019 from 9 am to 6 pm at the FEB premises in Brussels.

Several expert reports published in 2019 appear to converge in their assessment of market failures in digital economy markets, as well as on the remedies required from a competition and regulatory point of view. This conference seeks to assess whether these findings can lay the foundations of a new consensus, apt to provide directions to enforcement, judicial and lawmaking authorities in the EU.


PROGRAMME

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-09:10 Welcome address
Nicolas PETIT – Professor of Law, University of Liège

09:10-09:30 Keynote address
Sir Christopher BELLAMY – Senior Consultant, Linklaters

09:30-10:45 Roundtable 1 – The Cremer, Furman, BdK and Stigler Center Reports: A New Consensus?

Moderator: Assimakis KOMNINOS – Partner, White & Case LLP
Gabrielle KOHLMEIER – Associate General Counsel, Antitrust & Strategic Projects, Verizon
Paul LUGARD – Partner, Baker Botts LLP
Abel MATEUS – Professor of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:45 Roundtable 2 – “Killer� Mergers?

Moderator: Lewis CROFTS – Editor-In-Chief, MLex
Peter ALEXIADIS – Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Kristina NORDLANDER – Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
Henri PIFFAUT – Vice-president, French Competition Authority

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Roundtable 3 – Data Mobility, Portability and Sharing Remedies: New Entry Path for Digital Economy Firms?

Moderator: Nicolas PETIT – Professor of Law, University of Liège
Diane COYLE – Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge
Alexandre DE STREEL – Professor, Universities of Namur and Louvain
Nicolò ZINGALES – Associate Professor of Competition and Information Law, University of Leeds

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Roundtable 4 – What Division of Labor between Antitrust and Regulation in the Digital Economy?

Moderator: Pieter VAN CLEYNENBREUGEL – Professor of Law, University of Liège
Christian AHLBORN – Partner, Linklaters
Brice ALLIBERT – Deputy Head of Unit, DG COMP, European Commission
Pablo IBANEZ COLOMO – Professor of Law, London School of Economics and College of Europe

17:30-18:00 Cocktail


PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Date: Monday 16 December 2019, from 9 am to 6 pm
Venue: FEB, Rue Ravenstein 4, 1000 Brussels
Working Language: English

Participation fees:
- € 170, excluding VAT (21 %)
- € 125, excluding VAT (21 %) for academics, public officials and AEDC/VSMR members

Contact: Ms Huyen Vo | + 32 2 515 09 83 | info@bsc.brussels

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