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Competition Policy Conference

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 Programme

Tuesday, 12 November 2019 (9.00 – 14.30)

 

The past is prologue: Competition enforcement in the next Commission

Competition and digital policies are increasingly interlinked, which is reflected in the new structure of the European Commission. The 36th edition of AmCham EU’s Annual Competition Policy Conference takes stock of the major achievements and the past developments in the field, laying out the key opportunities and challenges that companies will face in the future. Competition policy and industry regulation – Quo vadis?

 

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Programme

8.30   Registration

Welcome

9.00-9.15  Opening remarks

Dr Bertold Bär-Bouyssiere, Co-Chair, Competition Policy Committee, AmCham EU and Partner, DLA Piper

Panel discussions

9.15-10.15  State Aid

  • Dr Adina Claici, Director, Copenhagen Economics
  • Francesca Stevens, Chair, Policy Group, AmCham EU and Director Government Affairs and Business Development, Arconic
  • Paul-John Loewenthal, member of the Legal Service, European Commission

Moderated by Dr Bertold Bär-Bouyssiere, Co-Chair, Competition Policy Committee, AmCham EU and Partner, DLA Piper

10.15-11.15  Mergers

  • Thomas Deisenhofer, Head of Unit for merger control, basic industries, manufacturing and agriculture, DG Competition, European Commission
  • Sir Jonathan Faull, Chair, European Public Affairs, Brunswick Group
  • Carel Maske, Senior Attorney, Microsoft
  • Dr Alexis Walckiers, Chief Economist, Belgian Competition Authority

Moderated by Dr Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte, Vice-Chair of Competition Policy Committee, AmCham EU, Partner, Hogan Lovells LLP

11.15-11.30  Coffee break

11.30-12.30  Abuse of dominance

  • Oliver Bethell, Director, EMEA Competition, Google
  • Inge Graef, Member of the European Commission's expert group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy and Assistant Professor, Tilburg Law School
  • Paul Lugard, Partner, Baker Botts
  • Miguel de la Mano, Executive Vice-President, Compass Lexecon

Moderated by Jay Modrall, Co-Chair, Competition Policy Committee, AmCham EU and Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

Keynote address

12.45-13.30 The legacy of Commissioner Vestager and its impact on the future work of the Commission

  • Cecilio Madero Villarejo, Acting Director General, DG Competition, European Commission

​Q&A moderated by Maxime Bureau, Chairman, AmCham EU and Director Government Affairs, Europe, Middle East and Africa, 3M

Walking lunch

13.30-14.30

 

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