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CompLaw: Summer School
Monday 8 - Friday 12 September 2025
Downing CollegeCambridge, UK
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Day 1: Intro to EU Competition Law and Article 101

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Day 1: Intro to EU Competition Law and Article 101
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10:15 - 10:45
Registration and Morning Coffee
10:45 - 11:00
Welcome from the Chair
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11:00 - 12:00
Introduction to EU Competition Law
  • Objectives of EU competition law
  • Article 101 of the EU Treaty
    • Cartels
    • Other anti-competitive agreements (horizontal and vertical)
  • Article 102 of the EU Treaty:
    • Market definition
    • Dominant positions and abuse
  • Private enforcement
  • EU merger control
  • Foreign Direct Investment considerations
  • The importance of economic principles in EU competition law
12:00 - 13:00
Introduction to Competition Economics: Key Principles
  • Key principles in competition economics
  • Role of competition economics in competition law
  • Use of economic evidence in Article 101 cases
  • Vertical and horizontal agreements; and information exchange
  • Hard-core cartels: economic effects, and damages
  • Best practice in the use of economic analysis
13:00 - 14:00
Networking Lunch
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14:00 - 15:10
Hard Core Cartels & the EU Leniency Programme
  • Hard core cartels: key characteristics & recent focus areas of cartel enforcement
  • Consequences of cartel infringements, including fines
  • Key stages of an EU cartel investigation, including dawn raids
  • The EU leniency programme & challenges for companies and enforcers
15:10 - 15:30
Afternoon Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:40
Other Horizontal Agreements: Dealing with your Competitors
  • Introduction to other horizontal agreements, what they are and why they are a concern
  • Legal and illegal agreements: how to ensure that you fall on the right side of the line
  • Block exemptions to horizontal agreements, including the new HBER
  • Information exchange
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16:40 - 17:20
“Best Practices” of Providing Competition Law Advice
17:20 - 17:30
Chair's Summary of the Day & Close of Day 1
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18:00 - 19:00
College Bar Opens in the Howard Building
19:00 - 20:00
Dinner
20:00 - 23:30
Quiz Night in the Howard Building
NextDay 2: Article 102 & Digital Markets
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