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Perspectives from the Belgian Competition Authority

Event | 03.23.22, 7:30 AM CDT - 9:00 AM CDT

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In collaboration with the IBJ/IJE

Damien Gerard, the new Prosecutor General of the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) and Griet Jans, Chief Economist at the BCA since 2020, will provide a snapshot of the BCA’s activities and ongoing projects. In addition to providing a state of play, they will discuss what’s to come for competition law in Belgium and the priorities of the BCA going forward.

Topics covered include:

  • Antitrust: current issues relating to leniency, settlements, commitments, fines and substantive issues such as price signaling and exchange of information
  • Concentrations: gun jumping issues, the increased use of data and economic tools in merger assessment, and general debates surrounding (local) market definitions and efficiencies
  • Recent and upcoming policy initiatives relating to abuse of economic dependency, digitization, sustainability, and labor market issue
  • BCA capacity building in terms of budget, people and instruments

The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session moderated by Crowell & Moring partners Thomas De Meese and Karel Bourgeois. 


If you would like to submit a question beforehand, please reach out to Thomas De Meese at tdemeese@crowell.com and/or Karel Bourgeois at kbourgeois@crowell.com.

For more information, please visit these areas: Antitrust and Competition — Brussels Practice, Brussels Practice, Antitrust and Competition

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