Fundamentals of Competition Law
Program: Bachelor of Business and Administration (Specialisations: Business, Finance, Governance)
ECTS: 3
Lecturer: Dr. Daria Kostecka-Jurczyk
Email: daria.kostecka-jurczyk@uwr.edu.pl
Type: Optional
Level: Elementary
Lecture
Number of hours: 2h X 6 weeks = 12 hours (1 semester)
Classes
Number of hours: 2h X 4 weeks = 8 hours (1 semester)
Objective:
The subject deals with legal problems of competition law including anticompetitive agreements of undertakings, abuse of dominant position and control of centrations between companies.
The aim:
Showing horizontal and vertical agreements, that are prosecuted by antimonopoly authority.
Elaboration of agreements, that are allowed by competition rules.
Presenting instruments used by EU Commissions in assessment abuse of dominance.
Introducing students into a variety of merger transactions and the essence of merger control.
Acquired knowledge:
Student aquire knowledge of how to distinguish anticompetitive practices.
Is able to characterize abuse of dominance (pricing and non-pricing practices).
Can differentiate concentration that must be notified to the EU Commission and that musn’t be notyfied.
Acquired skills:
Student is able to determine relevant market.
Student can predict, when entrepreneurs behaviour can restrict competition on the relevant market.
Student is able to assess sanctions against companies, that brake competition rules.
Developed reflection:
Ability to analyse and assess when agreement between companies dostort competition on the relevant market.
Ability to use instruments of merger assessment.
Ability to indicate product and geographic relevant market.
Ability to determine a degree of market concentration.
Assessment:
The final grade consists of: term papers ( 100% ).
Contents:
Agreements, decisions and concerted practices.
Horizontal and vertical agreements.
Legal exeptions.
Establishing dominace: market power, market definition, assessing the existecne of market power.
Categories of abuses of dominance.
The scope of merger control in the EU law.
Substantial appraisal of concentration by the EU Commission.
Recommended reading:
- The EU Law of Competiton, Jonathan Faull, Ali Nikpay, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014.
- Competiton Law, Richard Wish, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012.
- EU Merger Control. A Legal and Economic Analysis, J. Kokkoris, D. Shelansky, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014.
