EC Competition Law
- 01/01/2007
- Books
Van Bael & Bellis is pleased to announce the publication of its Japanese language book on EC competition law, “EC Competition Law”, (Shoji-homu).
Over the past few decades, EC competition law has developed into a complex field of law affecting many aspects of commercial activity in Europe. Failing to respect EC competition law, even if unintended, may have very serious consequences, including fines that can run into the hundreds of millions of Euros. As a rapidly growing number of EC competition law proceedings attests, Japanese companies active in Europe are not being spared from enforcement of the EC competition rules. “EC Competition Law” by the Brussels-based specialist European law firm Van Bael & Bellis serves to assist Japanese businesses in understanding and mastering this multifaceted body of law.
Written in Japanese, “EC Competition Law” covers the key areas of substantive and procedural EC competition law: basic concepts, cartels, cooperation agreements, distribution, IP licensing, abuse of dominance, merger control, and procedural rules. The book reflects the law as it stood on 1 July 2007 covering, among others, the fundamental changes that took place with the modernisation of EC competition law on 1 May 2004 as well as important subsequent changes. These include new procedural rules on the enforcement of Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty, the new Merger Regulation and new Merger Guidelines, the EC Commission’s new Fining Guidelines and Leniency Notice and the new Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation.
Van Bael & Bellis is the author one of the standard works in the field of EC competition law “Competition Law of the European Community” (Kluwer International, 2005 (fourth edition)) and producer of the award-winning DVD “Complying with EU competition law” (available in Japanese and nine other languages).
“EC Competition Law” is available at book shops all over Japan and online stores.