In November 2009, the Rafael del Pino Foundation hosted the Seminar on Competition Law and Economics, held for the sixth time since 2004, which has become an eagerly awaited event for all of us in Spain who are dedicated to this discipline.
The result of the 2009 meeting is the book that the reader has in his hands, under the title El Derecho de la Competencia en tiempos de crisis. The work joins the five volumes published so far by the Fundación Rafael del Pino and Editorial Marcial Pons to bring together the work of the successive annual sessions: La modernización del Derecho de la Competencia en España y en la Unión Europea, 2005; El abuso de la posición de dominio, 2006; El Derecho de la Competencia y los Jueces, 2007; Remedios y sanciones en el Derecho de la Competencia; 2008, and Los acuerdos horizontales entre empresas, 2009.
All the topics covered and their authors are:
- The transposition of the Services Directive in Spain (Isabel Sánchez)
- Crisis cartels (Julio Costas Comesaña)
- Sanctions policy in times of crisis (Fernando Castillo de la Torre)
- Application of competition rules to vertical restraints in times of crisis (Rafael Allendesalazar and Roberto Vallina).
- Special procedure for the approval of concentrations in times of crisis (Antonio Martínez Sánchez and Jaime Rodríguez Ordóñez).
- The survival of companies in crisis (Cani Fernández)
- Remedies applied to concentrations in times of crisis (Marcos Araujo)
- Competition policy, industrial policy and national champions in times of crisis (Juan Delgado and Eva Ferraz)
- Simplification and acceleration of the procedure for authorising public aid (Edurne Navarro and Elena García Aguado)
- Consideration of the (foreseeable) reaction of State aid law to new types of aid. In particular, the contribution to the financing of RTVE (Pedro Callol).
- Tax regimes and State aid: the limits of Member States' competence. Selectivity vs. distortion of competition (José Luis da Cruz Vilaça)
- Commission Notice (2008) on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid in the form of guarantees (Juan Jiménez-Laiglesia Oñate, José María Jiménez-Laiglesia Oñate, Fernando Gutiérrez Rizaldos and Jorge Masía Tejedor).
- Aid for business restructuring (Jaime Pérez-Bustamante and Fredik Löwhagen)
- Recapitalisation aid and the acquisition of depreciated assets in the financial sector (Francisco Uría Fernández)
- Limits to aid to the financial sector (Carlos Urraca Caviedes)
- Recovery of illegal state aid (Antonio Cresu Carreras)