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Reports & Resolutions
Congress Bordeaux 2010
Question A: What, if any, agreements on information exchanges about prices should be prohibited in vertical relationships?
International Rapporteur : Elisabeth Legnerfält (Sweden)
Question B: To what extent should IP Rights (Trademark, Copyright, Design Rights, and Appellation d‘Origine) restrict comparative advertising?
International Rapporteur : Prof. Jochen Glöckner (Germany).
Vienna (October 2009)
Question A : Should a competition authority have a complete discretionary power as regards investigating cases of infringement or on what criteria should that power be exercised ?
International Rapporteur : Prof. Nicolas Petit (Belgium)
Question B : What are the criteria that determine the unfairness of so called "look alikes", what are the prohibitions and the appropriate sanctions ?
International Rapporteur : Professeur Docteur Guido Kucsko (Austria).
Hamburg - September 2008
Question A: Fidelity discounts and rebates not justified by the costs : in which cases should such practises by a dominant undertaking be forbidden ?
International Rapporteur : Alberto Heimler (Italy)
Question B :Under which cicumstances and to what extent should the positive obligation of providing information be imposed by regulation on advertisers ?
International Rapporteur : Prof. Antonia Barkadjeva Engelbrekt (Sweden).
Catania - September 2007
Question A : To what extent and by what means should Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”) be subject to compulsory licensing by reason of competition law ?
International Rapporteur : Tony Woodgate (UK)
Question B : Ambush Marketing: too smart to be good ?
Should certain ambush marketing practices be declared illegal and if yes, which ones and under what conditions ?
International Rapporteur: Pierre KOBEL (Switzerland).
Amsterdam - October 2006
Question A : “Should private enforcement of antitrust law be encouraged, and if so, by what measures?”
International Rapporteur : Chantal Momège (France)
Question B : “Should the objectives of the rules on unfair competition be to protect competitors, consumers, or other interests? How should any conflict between these objectives be resolved?
International Rapporteur : Frauke Henning Bodewig (Germany).
GHENT (October 2005)
Question A : Can the law of unfair competition complete or replace the specific protection conferred on intellectual property and, if so, to what extent ?
Question B : To what extent may or must competition law control
a) the freedom of a supplier to choose one or several distribution channels for the same product?
b) the cumulative effect of choice of the same distribution channel by the majority of suppliers operating within the same market?.
BUDAPEST (October 2004)
Comparative Advertising : Which framework for the regulation of comparative advertising?.
BARCELONA (October 2003)
Question 1 : Do professional organizations in charge of the rules concerning the practice of liberal professions have to comply with competition law ? If so, do they benefit or should they benefit from the exemptions ?
Question 2 : What are the advantages and disadvantages of the existence of a specific procedure of cessation of unfair competition practises? Is it advisable to introduce such a procedure or harmonize existing procedures? What should be the conditions and consequences?
Question 3 : Can the exercise of copyright or related rights constitute an abuse of dominant market position and if so in what circumstances? resolution, international report ?
Question 4 : To what extent and under what conditions can the enforcement of criminal sentences for individuals and their possible application to companies increase the efficiency of competition law ?.
MONTREUX (September 2002)
Question 1 : Should any special considerations be taken into account in the application of competition law to sport and, if so, which and to what extent ?
Question 2 : Should the media be the subject of special treatment under either competition law or unfair competition law? If special treatment is justified, then in what circumstances and to what extent should this be the case ?
Question 4 : Do the rules relating to domain names registrations operate in a manner which promotes the advancement of e-commerce ? Do they infringe concepts of competition or unfair competition ?.
Question A: What, if any, agreements on information exchanges about prices should be prohibited in vertical relationships?
International Rapporteur : Elisabeth Legnerfält (Sweden)
Question B: To what extent should IP Rights (Trademark, Copyright, Design Rights, and Appellation d‘Origine) restrict comparative advertising?
International Rapporteur : Prof. Jochen Glöckner (Germany).
Vienna (October 2009)
Question A : Should a competition authority have a complete discretionary power as regards investigating cases of infringement or on what criteria should that power be exercised ?
International Rapporteur : Prof. Nicolas Petit (Belgium)
Question B : What are the criteria that determine the unfairness of so called "look alikes", what are the prohibitions and the appropriate sanctions ?
International Rapporteur : Professeur Docteur Guido Kucsko (Austria).
Hamburg - September 2008
Question A: Fidelity discounts and rebates not justified by the costs : in which cases should such practises by a dominant undertaking be forbidden ?
International Rapporteur : Alberto Heimler (Italy)
Question B :Under which cicumstances and to what extent should the positive obligation of providing information be imposed by regulation on advertisers ?
International Rapporteur : Prof. Antonia Barkadjeva Engelbrekt (Sweden).
Catania - September 2007
Question A : To what extent and by what means should Intellectual Property Rights (“IPRs”) be subject to compulsory licensing by reason of competition law ?
International Rapporteur : Tony Woodgate (UK)
Question B : Ambush Marketing: too smart to be good ?
Should certain ambush marketing practices be declared illegal and if yes, which ones and under what conditions ?
International Rapporteur: Pierre KOBEL (Switzerland).
Amsterdam - October 2006
Question A : “Should private enforcement of antitrust law be encouraged, and if so, by what measures?”
International Rapporteur : Chantal Momège (France)
Question B : “Should the objectives of the rules on unfair competition be to protect competitors, consumers, or other interests? How should any conflict between these objectives be resolved?
International Rapporteur : Frauke Henning Bodewig (Germany).
GHENT (October 2005)
Question A : Can the law of unfair competition complete or replace the specific protection conferred on intellectual property and, if so, to what extent ?
Question B : To what extent may or must competition law control
a) the freedom of a supplier to choose one or several distribution channels for the same product?
b) the cumulative effect of choice of the same distribution channel by the majority of suppliers operating within the same market?.
BUDAPEST (October 2004)
Comparative Advertising : Which framework for the regulation of comparative advertising?.
BARCELONA (October 2003)
Question 1 : Do professional organizations in charge of the rules concerning the practice of liberal professions have to comply with competition law ? If so, do they benefit or should they benefit from the exemptions ?
Question 2 : What are the advantages and disadvantages of the existence of a specific procedure of cessation of unfair competition practises? Is it advisable to introduce such a procedure or harmonize existing procedures? What should be the conditions and consequences?
Question 3 : Can the exercise of copyright or related rights constitute an abuse of dominant market position and if so in what circumstances? resolution, international report ?
Question 4 : To what extent and under what conditions can the enforcement of criminal sentences for individuals and their possible application to companies increase the efficiency of competition law ?.
MONTREUX (September 2002)
Question 1 : Should any special considerations be taken into account in the application of competition law to sport and, if so, which and to what extent ?
Question 2 : Should the media be the subject of special treatment under either competition law or unfair competition law? If special treatment is justified, then in what circumstances and to what extent should this be the case ?
Question 4 : Do the rules relating to domain names registrations operate in a manner which promotes the advancement of e-commerce ? Do they infringe concepts of competition or unfair competition ?.
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