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General information about the course
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Welcome
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Welcome to Part III of the masterprogramme of European Law: EU Competition law!
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Learning objective/Course Aim
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The aim of this course is to examine the legal rules of EU Competition Law taking into account the underlying economic principles and wider policy issues. Students will upon completion of the course have sufficient understanding of the subject to practice and research in the field. The course concentrates on the foundations for the system of rules, consisting of Articles 101 and 102 of the EU Treaty and the Merger Regulation, which together are enforced in order to ensure that ‘effective competition’ prevails in EU markets These legal sources regulate much business activity using a complex balancing test to determine whether such activity is lawful competition or unlawful anti-competitive conduct. The course offers an economic perspective on these legal rules. It also offers a comparative perspective, frequently referring to the way antitrust law in the USA deals with similar problems. It looks at the application of the competition rules in certain contexts and sectors: “public undertakings”, state aids, telecoms, media, banking and intellectual property rights.
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Course description
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The course consists of a series of lectures and seminars (2 hours each). Attendance to all lectures and seminars is compulsory. Each student has to write one memorandum in English and act as opponent on a memorandum at one seminar. The study material constituting the required reading is all in English and amounts to about 1000 pages of text.
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Examination
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The course ends with a written examination. The questions are given in English and should be answered in English. You are allowed to bring the course literature, all material handed out during the course, your own notes made during the seminars and lectures as well as other relevant material to the examination. Laptops and cell-phones are not allowed during the examination.
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