European Competition Law Annual 1999: Selected Issues in the Field of State Aid (European Competition Law Annual)

726 Pages·2001·39.22 MB·English

by  Claus Dieter Ehlermann

EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW ANNUAL 1999:
Selected Issues in the Field of State Aid

EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW ANNUAL:
1999
Selected Issues in the Field of State Aid
Edited by
Claus-Dieter Ehlermann
and
Michelle Everson
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CONTENTS
List of Participants vii
List of Sponsors ix
Table of Cases xi
Table of Treaties and Legislation xv
Abbreviations xix
INTRODUCTION xxi
PANEL ONE: JUSTIFICATIONS FOR STATE AIDS
Opening Statement by Karel Van Miert 3
1 Panel Discussion 15
2 Working Papers
I Pierre Buigues 49
II John Fingleton 57
III Jordi Gual 77
IV Anne Houtman 91
V Patrick Low 103
VI Patrick Messerlin 123
VII Fiorella Padoa-Schioppa Kostoris in cooperation
with Sascia Lubicz 133
VIII Patrick Rey 141
IX Paul Seabright 149
X Fabienne Ilzkovitz, Roderick Meiklejohn and
Jan Horst Schmidt 155
PANEL TWO: PROBLEMS ARISING FROM STATE AIDS IN THE BANKING SECTOR
1 Panel Discussion 177
2 Working Papers
I Colin Bamford 203
II Jacques Bourgeois 209
III Marc Dassesse 227
IV Charles Ilako 231
V Christian Koenig 239
VI Asger Petersen 255
VII Gian Michele Roberti 277
VIII Wulf-Henning Roth 291
IX Mario Sarcinelli 305
vi Contents
X Alfonso Papa Malatesta 323
XI Uwe H. Schneider 359
XII Michael Schiitte 375
XIII Peter Schiitterle 393
XIV Romano Subiotto 401
XV Antoine Winckler 433
XVI Giuseppe Zadra 461
PANEL THREE: THE PROSPECTS FOR THE DECENTRALISATION OF EU STATE AID
CONTROL
1 Panel Discussion 469
2 Working Papers
I Alec Burnside 505
II Gerardo Carneroli 515
III Jonathan Faull 523
IV Mauro Grande 535
V A.J.E. Havermans 553
VI Walter Hellerstein 577
VII Gary N. Horlick 593
VIII Matthew Schaefer 605
IX Tihamer Toth 647
BIBLIOGRAPHY 667
INDEX 679
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Giuliano Amato (Presidente del Consiglio, Rome, Italy)
Colin Bamford (Chief Executive, Financial Law Panel Limited, London, UK)
Jacques Bourgeois (Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Brussels,
Belgium
Pierre Buigues (Head of Unit, DG-III of the European Commission,
Brussels, Belgium)
Alec Burnside (Partner, Linklaters & Paines Brussels, Belgium)
Gerardo Carnerolli (President, European Court of Auditor, Luxembourg)
Marc Dassesse (Professor, Institute for European Studies, Free University of
Brussels, and Partner McKenna & Cuneo)
Claus-Dieter Ehlermann (Professor, Dr., Member of the WTO Panel, Geneva
Switzerland and Professor of the Robert Schumann Centre, Florence, Italy)
Jonathan Faull (Formerly, Deputy Director General, State Aid Control, DG-
IV of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium; now, Press Secretary to
the President of the European Commission)
John Fingleton (Professor, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland)
Mauro Grande (Head of Prudential Supervision Division, European Central
Bank, Frankfurt, Germany)
Jordi Gual (Professor, IESE, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain)
A.J.E. Havermans (Member of the Board of Netherlands Court of Auditors,
The Hague, Netherlands)
Walter Hellerstein (Professor, School of Law, University of Georgia, Athens
GA, USA)
Gary Horlick (Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington D.C., USA)
Anne Houtman (Head of Unit, State Aid Policy, DG-IV of the European
Commission, Brussels, Belgium)
Charles Ilako (Pricewaterhouse Coopers Consultants, London, UK)
Christian Koenig (Director, Centre for European Integration Studies,
University of Bonn, Germany)
viii List of Participants
Patrick Low (Director, Office of Director-General WTO,
Geneva, Switzerland)
Patrick A. Messerlin (Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France)
Fiorella Padoa-Schioppa Kostoris (Professor, ISAE, Rome, Italy)
Alfonso Papa Malatesta (Professor, Cerardi Luiss University, Rome, Italy)
Agar Petersen (Former Deputy Director General, State Aid Control, DG-IV,
of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium)
Patrick Rey (Professor, Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Universite des
Sciences Sociales de Toulouse, France)
Gian MicheleRoberti (Partner, Studio Legale Tizzano, Brussels, Belgium)
Wulf-Henning Roth (Professor, Dr., Institut fur Internationales Privatrecht
und Rechtvergleichung, Bonn, Germany)
Mario Sarcinelli (President, Former President, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro,
Rome, Italy)
Matthew Schaefer (Professor, College of Law, University of Nebraska, USA)
Ian Host Schmidt (Director, Economic Evaluation Unit, DG II/E of the
European Commission, Brussels, Belgium)
Uwe H. Schneider (Professor, Dr., Centre for German and International Law
of Financial Services, Guttenberg Universitat Mainz, Germany)
Peter Schuetterle (Cr., Secretary General, Energy Charter, Brussels, Belgium)
Michael Schutte (Cr., Partner, Bruckhaus, Westrick, Heller Lober, Brussels,
Belgium)
Paul Seabright (Professor, University of Cambridge, UK)
Romano Subiotto (Dr., Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Brussels,
Belgium)
Tihamer Toth (Dr., Counsellor, Office for Economic Competition of
Hungary, Budapest, Hungary)
Antoine Winckler (Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Brussels,
Belgium)
Giuseppe Zadra (Dr., Director General, Associazione Bancaria Italiana)
LIST OF SPONSORS
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (LLP), Brussels Office, Belgium
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Brussels Office, Belgium
Howrey Simon Arnold & White, Washington DC Office, USA
Martinez Lage & Asociados, Madrid, Spain,
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (LLP), Brussels Office, Belgium
White & Case (LLP), Brussels Office, Belgium
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering ,Brussels Office, Belgium
Bruckhaus, Westrick, Stegemann, Brussels Office, Belgium
Linklaters & Alliance, Brussels Office, Belgium
O'Melveny & Myers, Washington DC Office, USA
Studio Legale Tizzano, Rome Office, Italy