PROGRAMME
Note: The conference programme may be subject to change.
9 APRIL 2015 | |
9:00 | REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS |
9:15 | WELCOME SPEECHES |
| ORSAT MILJENIĆ Minister of Justice of the Republic of Croatia | |
| MARIO VUKELIĆ President of the High Commercial Court of the Republic of Croatia | |
| VESNA TOMLJENOVIĆ President of the Croatian Comparative Law Association | |
| DAVOR VIDAS Director of the Law of the Sea and Marine Affairs Programme, Fridtjof Nansen Institute | |
EDUARD KUNŠTEK Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka | |
| NADA BODIROGA-VUKOBRAT Director of Jean Monnet Inter-University Centre of Excellence Opatija | |
| MLADEN CEROVAC President of the Competition Council of the Croatian Competition Agency | |
10:00 | RETHINKING THE ROLE OF THE GENERAL COURT |
| MARC JAEGER President of the General Court of the EU 25 years of the General Court – looking back and forward | |
10:20 | MIRO PREK Judge of the General Court of the EU The General Court as the EU competition court? |
10:40 | Coffee break |
11:00 | ENFORCEMENT OF COMPETITION RULES |
| SILVERE LEFEVRE Legal Secretary at the General Court of the EU Commission’s investigatory powers under the Regulation 1/2003 – Recent developments | |
| MARC BARENNES Legal Secretary at the General Court of the EU Leniency and settlement procedures in cartel law: Recent developments | |
| LUDOVIC BERNARDEAU Legal Secretary at the General Court of the EU Fines and fundamental rights: New challenges? | |
12:00 | Discussion |
12:30 | Lunch break |
14:30 | MLADEN CEROVAC President of the Competition Council of the Croatian Competition Agency Croatian Competition Agency’s investigatory powers and the right to challenge Agency’s decisions |
| DUBRAVKA AKŠAMOVIĆ Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Osijek The role of the Croatian High Administrative Court in competition cases | |
| VESNA PATRLJ Vice-President of the Competition Council of the Croatian Competition Agency Recent decisions of the Croatian Competition Agency | |
15:30 | ENFORCEMENT OF STATE AID RULES |
| VIKTOR KREUSCHITZ Judge of the General Court of the EU Review of recent case law on enforcement of EU state aid law | |
| NURIA BERMEJO GUTIERREZ Legal Secretary at the General Court of the EU The role of the national judge in the enforcement of EU state aid law | |
| MARKO MAČEK State Aid and Compliance Managing Director at the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development Enforcement of state aid rules following the Croatian accession to the EU | |
16:30 | Coffee break |
16:45 | NICOLA CHESAITES Legal Secretary at the General Court of the EU Tax incentives as a form of state aid |
| PETRA NEMECKOVA Member of the State aid and anti-dumping team, Legal Service, European Commission State aid in the field of environmental protection and energy | |
| MARIJANA LISZT/EDITA ČULINOVIĆ HERC Attorney at the Law Firm Posavec, Rašica & Liszt/Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka State aid to services of general economic interest in Croatia | |
| ANA POŠĆIĆ/NADA BODIROGA VUKOBRAT Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka/Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka State aid and games of chance services | |
18:00 | Discussion |
| 10 APRIL 2015 | |
| 10:00 | PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT OF COMPETITON RULES |
| HELENA PENOVSKI Case handler at the Private Enforcement Unit, DG Competition, European Commission EU Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions and its transposition into the Member States’ laws | |
| ANCA D. CHIRITA Lecturer at the Durham University The Disclosure of Evidence under the Antitrust Damages Directive 2014/104/EU | |
| SINIŠA PETROVIĆ Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb Enforcement of EU competition rules by the national courts | |
| VLATKA BUTORAC MALNAR Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka Claims for damages caused by "umbrella effects" | |
11:20 | Coffee break |
11:35 | VESNA TOMLJENOVIĆ Judge of the General Court of the EU Class actions and private enforcement of competition rules |
| MIHAIL DANOV Senior Lecturer at the Brunel University London International jurisdiction in antitrust litigation | |
| IVANA KUNDA Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka Conflict of laws in antitrust litigation | |
12:35 | Discussion |
13:00 | Closing of the conference |
Note: The conference programme may be subject to change.
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