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| European Union - Fifteenth Report Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 27 March 2007. Foreword—what this Report is about The CBI proposal—decisions within six months (i) Competition in the internal market (ii) Absence of EC regulation until 1989 European Merger Control Statistics—Phase I Decisions (to Dec 06) European Merger Control Statistics—Phase II Decisions (to Dec 06) Scrutiny history—earlier Reports Effectiveness of judicial review A problem but no agreed solution Solutions—options and timeframe Chapter 2: Defining the problem Current performance under fast-track Not restricted to prohibition decisions Chapter 3: A new Court—the pros and cons The language question revisited Objections to and difficulties of a new Court Complex nature of the litigation Institutional and competition policy issues (i) Importance of competition within the Treaty (ii) Downgrading competition policy (iii) Shifting the focus of policy-making (iv) Detachment of competition law Future prospect of a new court Chapter 4: Composition and functions of a new Court Jurisdiction of the Competition Court Composition of the Competition Court Only lawyers allowed under the Treaty? Appeals from the Competition Court
(ii) Implications of specialisation (a) The CFI's working language Taking decision-making away from the Commission Enlarging jurisdiction of the CFI Reducing the burden of cartel cases Transferring other business to a judicial panel Chapter 6: Increasing the jurisdiction of the CFI
Consequences of Modernisation Regulation Chapter 7: Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations A Competition Court—composition and functions Changing CFI rules and practice Taking decision-making away from the Commission Plea-bargaining in cartel cases Preliminary reference jurisdiction Appendix 1: Sub-Committee E (Law and Institutions) ORAL EVIDENCE
Mr Rufus Ogilvie Smals, Mr Alex Nourry,
Mr Tim Cowen, and CBI Brief—15 June 2006 1 Oral evidence, 22 November 2006 3
Supplementary written evidence 13
Mr Onno Brouwer, Chairman, and Mr Georg
Berrisch, Member, CCBE Permanent Delegation to the Court of Justice
and the Court of First Instance Written evidence 16
Oral evidence, 29 November 2006 16 Dr William Bishop, CRA International Written evidence 30
Oral evidence, 6 December 2006 31
Sir Christopher Bellamy QC, President, and
Mr Charles Dhanowa,
Oral evidence, 6 December 2006 38 Sir David Edward QC Written evidence 47
Oral evidence, 13 December 2006 51
M. Michel Petite, Director General, Legal Services,
and Mr Philip Lowe Written evidence 64 Oral evidence, 10 January 2007 69
Supplementary written evidence 80
Judge Bo Vesterdorf, President of the Court of
First Instance of the European Oral evidence, 17 January 2007 88
Supplementary written evidence 102
Mr Greg McMahon, Group Company Secretary
and Head of Legal Services,
Oral evidence, 24 January 2007 106 WRITTEN EVIDENCE Allen & Overy 115 BDI (Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie) 118 Competition Commission 119 Competition Law Association 126 Department of Trade and Industry 129 International Bar Association 137 International Chamber of Commerce 141 Joint Competition Law Working Party 144 MEDEF (Mouvement des Entreprises de France) 147 Office of Fair Trading 149 Peter Roth QC, Monckton Chambers 153 Svenskt Näringsliv (Confederation of Swedish Enterprise) 156 John Temple Lang and Robert O'Donoghue 158
UNICE 162 NOTE: References in the text of the Report are as follows: (Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of the Report or Appendices,
or to a page of evidence
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