Every year, top-level market regulators, academics, and legal and economic practitioners contribute to the Annual Competition Workshop organized at the European University Institute in Florence. Workshop participants address and critically analyze a particular set of topical issues in the field of competition law and policy. The proceedings are published in the European Competition Law Annual series. This 17th volume of the series encompasses numerous chapters that examine competition policy and its relationships with regulatory and other public policies, against the general background of...

This volume contains papers presented at the 18th Annual EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop. The papers examine means of balancing effective (public) competition law enforcement and the requirements of legitimate and accountable exercise of public authority. The authors address the design and performance of various enforcement tools at European and national levels, including sanctions and remedies but also distinctive instruments under Regulation 1/2003 (eg commitment procedures) and under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Article 106(3) when used as a basis for...