Università Roma Tre

This course aims at providing the fundamental notions of competition law as a central area in the EU Single Market policy. To this end, it will focus on the competition provisions that are directly applicable to companies throughout the European Union, i.e. the prohibition of cartels and restrictive practices, the prohibition of abuses of dominant position and merger control (to the exclusion of State aids and Article 106 TFEU).
More in detail, it will cover:
- The objectives of competition law;
- Essentials of US antitrust law;
- The role of competition rules in the EU;
- Market power, market definition and barriers to entry;
- Article 101 TFEU;
- Article 102 TFEU;
- Competition law and regulation;
- Public and private enforcement;
- Mergers.
The course intends to adopt a comparative approach (mainly with regard to the US system) and will involve the study of the main relevant case-law and recent policy documents.

R. Whish – D. Bailey, Competition Law, Oxford University Press 2015 (8th ed.), as follows: Chapter 1; Chapter 2 paras. 1, 2, 4; Chapters 3, 4, 5; Chapter 8, paras. 1, 2; Chapter 13, paras. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8; Chapter 14, paras. 1, 2, 3, 4; Chapter 15, para. 3; Chapter 16, paras. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Chapter 17, paras. 1, 2, 3, 4; Chapter 18 (excluding subparagraphs dedicated solely to UK).