This volume contains papers presented at the 16th Annual EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop, held at the European University Institute on 17-18 June 2011. This edition of the Workshop examined the emerging and increasingly important use of private rights of action before national courts, and the prospects for legislation and soft law initiatives at the level of the EU. The book has been updated and reflects the European Commission's private enforcement package of June 2013. Furthermore, the experiences of various national jurisdictions are discussed, both within Europe and in the US and Canada. As a whole, the volume explores how public and private enforcement might function harmoniously, as an 'integrated' system, to promote the public interest while ensuring that individual rights created in this field by the EU competition rules are vindicated. The contributors have, however, devoted significant analysis to the tensions between those two modes of enforcement.

Authors contributing to this book include:

Enno Ahlenstiel

Donald Baker

Jochen Burrichter

Horst Butz

Scott Campbell

Brian Facey

Tristan Feunteun

Ian Forrester

Andrew Foster

Andrew Gavil

Barry Hawk

James Keyte

Assimakis Komninos

Bruno Lasserre

Frédéric Louis

Mel Marquis

Veljko Milutinovic

Luis Silva Morais

Tom Ottervanger

Silvia Pietrini

Mark Powell

John Ratliff

J. Thomas Rosch

David Rosner

Mario Siragusa

James Venit