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EU Competition Enforcement and Human Rights

EU Competition Enforcement and Human Rights

Author: Arianna Andreangeli
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781847206329
Published In: September 2008
Format: Hardback , 296 pages
Jurisdiction: European Union ? Disclaimer:
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This book discusses the procedural rights enjoyed by those being investigated under Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty and of the Merger Control Regulation, and their right to challenge the Commission’s decision in the Community Courts. It further assesses how their rights to ‘due process’ in competition proceedings before the European Commission comply with the notion of ‘administrative fairness’ enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, in accordance with the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

In this study, Arianna Andreangeli takes into account key developments such as modernisation and its impact on competition proceedings before the Commission, the debate on the principles of legal professional privilege, the protection against self incrimination, the rule of ne bis in idem and the possibility of establishing an ‘EU competition court’. It offers an examination of the right to be heard, the right to have access to the Commission-held evidence, and to legal professional privilege, and the right to silence and to seek judicial review of Commission decisions and assess them in the light of the Strasbourg court’s case law.

Academics active in the area of competition law, EU law and human rights, as well as practitioners active in the area of competition law will find much to interest them in this book.
1. Introduction

2. The Right to be Heard in EC Competition Proceedings between ‘Administrative Due Process’ and a Right to a ‘Fair Trial’

3. Access to the Evidence in Competition Proceedings as a ‘Right of the Defence’ between Professional Secrecy and ‘Equality of Arms’

4. Protection Against Forced Disclosure of ‘Sensitive Evidence’: The Legal Professional Privilege and the Privilege Against Self-incrimination in EC Competition Investigations and Procedure

5. Judicial Review of Competition Decisions: A Guarantee of Fairness in EC Competition Enforcement?

6. The Modernisation of the Enforcement of Articles 81 and 82 EC Treaty and the Right to a ‘Fair Procedure’

7. Conclusions: ‘Article 6-proofing’ EC Competition Proceedings?

Conclusions: The Future of Community ‘Due Process’ in Competition
Arianna Andreangeli, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh, UK
'. . . Arianna Andreangeli’s book can be strongly recommended. Academics and practitioners active in the field of competition law, EU law and human rights will certainly find much of interest in this book.’
– Volker Soyez, European Competition Law Review

‘This book is well structured and well written. . . The volume represents an important contribution to the existing legal literature on fundamental rights protection in the EU legal order from a competition law perspective.’
– Giacomo Di Federico, Common Market Law Review