Further Reflections on a Judicial (and Administrative) Architecture in Support of an “Even More Efficient” Approach to EU Competition Law
摘要
Early in 2020, Nils Wahl suggested that I participate in the project of editing a systematic guide to Regulation 1/2003 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid down in the current version of the treaties in Arts 101 and 102 TFEU and the Union’s antitrust enforcement more generally. Editing this book was an intellectual privilege and pleasure. Not in the least because of the exchanges with Nils Wahl and the other editors on the different contributions! In his contribution to this book, Marc van der Woude, the General Court's President, made a case to activate the competence foreseen by Art. 256 (3) TFEU, according to which the Statute of the Court of Justice can lay down the General Court's jurisidction to hear and determine preliminary reference questions, with respect to EU competition law. The contribution hereafter examines the case for a further alignment of the judicial powers conferred on the EU courts in the field of competition law, as one way to further a "more efficient approach" to EU competition law.