EU Antitrust Procedure: Digital Pack

Dr Ekaterina Rousseva has extensive experience in the field of competition law. After practicing as an attorney, she joined the Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission in 2007 and since then has worked on a broad range of antitrust cases and policy projects. She holds a Phd from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She has authored the monograph "Rethinking Exclusionary Abuses in EU competition law" (Hart 2010) and numerous competition law articles. She is a visiting lecturer in competition law at the University of Sofia since 2011.

• I. INTRODUCTION 1: Overview of the EU antirust procedure: Legal Framework, Institutional Design, and Decision-Making Process, Monica Cunningham, Damien Gerard, Ekaterina Rousseva II. ANTITRUST INVESTIGATIONS 2: Requests for Information and Sector Inquires, Manuel Kellerbauer and Konstantina Strouvali 3: Inspections, Jan Nuijten 4: Power to Take Statements, Annemarie ter Heegde and Ekaterina Rousseva 5: Leniency and Whistle-blowers, Sari Suurnäkki and Paolo Tomassi III. OUTCOMES OF AN INVESTIGATION 6: Ordinary Procedure: From Initiation of Proceedings to the Adoption of a Final Decision, Viktor Bottka, Lukas Repa and Ekaterina Rousseva 7: Cartel Settlements and Antitrust Cooperation, Aleko Bogdanov and Thomas Köster 8: Commitments, Ulrich von Koppenfels and Flavien Christ 9: Interim Measures, Gábor Gál and Konstantina Srouvali 10: Handling and Rejecting Complaints, Anthony Dawes and Ekaterina Rousseva IV. THE RIGHTS OF DEFENCE 11: An Overview of the Rights of Defence in EU Antitrust Proceedings, Andreas Scordamaglia-Tousis 12: Access to the File in Antitrust Proceedings Before the European Commission, Henry Abbott and Wouter Wils 13: Oral Hearing, Wouter Wils V. FINES AND PERIODIC PENALITES 14: Fines Imposed for Substantive Infringements of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU, Tatiana López Garrido and Alexandros Papanikolaou 15: Fines for Procedural Infringements and Periodic Penalties, Tatiana López Garrido and Alexandros Papanikolaou VI. OTHER PROCEDURES RELATED TO THE APPLICATION OF THE ANTITRUST RULES 16: Infringements of the Antitrust Rules by the EU Member States, eli%ska Mamdaniová VII. STEPS FOLLOWING THE ADOPTION OF A COMMISSION DECISION 17: Publication of Antitrust Decisions and Other Documents, Annemarie ter Heegde and Kristina Todorova-Milanova 18: Judicial Review of Commission Decisions and Judicial Protection, Alexander Kornezov VIII. COOPERATION IN ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT 19: Cooperation Within the ECN and Strengthening of National Competition Authorities, Elisavet Arsenidou, Jeroen Capiau, Ailsa Sinclair and Jurga Stanciute 20: Cooperation between the Commission and the Courts of the EU Member States, Johannes Holzwarth 21: Cooperation between the Courts of the EU Member States and the Court of Justice, Martin Farley 22: International Cooperation, IEddy De Smijter, Philipp Gasparon and Pascal Berghe