Pablo Ibáñez Colomo - Böcker

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the New EU Competition Law: an emerging understanding of the discipline that breaks from the consensus of the early 2000s and that ventures into uncharted territories. Competition law has undergone fundamental transformations in the past decade, from the rise and fall of the ‘effects-based approach’ to the challenge of Big Tech and the growing interaction with intellectual property. Making sense of these changes and fully grasping their implications can be difficult.The book discusses the shift from traditional enforcement in the industrial era to the sort of intervention that a knowledge-based economy demands. It presents the changes that the field is undergoing (policy priorities, relationship with regulation and intangible assets, move away from efficiency and consumer welfare) and illustrates them by reference to the most significant developments. The analysis includes an up-to-date evaluation of the Digital Markets Act and addresses the application of EU competition law to key areas, including energy, pharma, telecommunications and online platforms.Conceived as a ‘modular’ book, practitioners and advanced students will find it useful as a map to navigate the underlying trends and as an in-depth dissection of the key case law and administrative practice of the past decade.Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsbury.pub/New-EU-Competition-Law

This book presents a positive account of state aid law at the EU, UK, and global levels, and provides the keys to understanding how it is adjusting to emerging realities.Industrial policy, decarbonisation, de-risking of supply chains: the regulation of subsidies is at the forefront of the transformations that the world economy is undergoing. The book provides an overview of the foundations of EU State aid law, one of the most dynamic areas of EU law. An up-to-date and accessible framework explains the core conditions underpinning the notion of State aid – including advantage and selectivity.The book also covers how the EU model has changed over the past decade. It helps navigate the complex case law on the application of EU State aid law to tax rulings concluded with large multinationals (such as the Apple saga) as well as the perma-crisis of the regime since the COVID pandemic.The ways in which the EU model extends its reach beyond its borders – convergence and unilateral expansion – are also addressed. The UK Subsidy Control Act 2022 and the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation are discussed and put in context.Conceived as a 'modular' book, it can be used both as a tool to navigate the fundamentals of the discipline and as a map to reflect upon its uncertain future.

This book presents a positive account of State aid and subsidy control law at the EU, UK, and global levels. It provides the keys to understanding how it is adjusting to emerging realities.Industrial policy, decarbonisation, de-risking of supply chains: the regulation of subsidies is at the forefront of the transformations that the world economy is undergoing. This book provides an overview of the foundations of EU State aid law, one of the most dynamic areas of EU law. An up-to-date and accessible framework explains the core conditions underpinning the notion of State aid – including advantage and selectivity.The book also looks at how the EU model has changed over the past decade. It helps navigate the complex case law on the application of EU State aid law to tax rulings concluded with large multinationals (such as the Apple saga) as well as the perma-crisis of the regime up until the adoption of the Clean Industrial Deal Framework.The ways in which the EU model extends its reach beyond its borders – convergence and unilateral expansion – are also addressed. The UK Subsidy Control Act 2022 and the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation are discussed and put into context.Conceived as a 'modular' book, it can be used both as a tool to navigate the fundamentals of the discipline and as a map to reflect upon its uncertain future.