Training Workshop in Cyprus

PROGRAMME

Thursday 26 October, 2017 

9:00-9:30: Registration of participants

• Welcome addresses: Myron Nicolatos, President of the Supreme Court of Cyprus; Ms. Elena Zachariadou, Attorney of the Republic
• Panayotis Glavinis, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Thessaloniki and Scientific Coordinator of the Project: “Introductory remarks: Multidisciplinarity, Law and Economics, Economic Analysis of Law and the Objectives of the Training Workshop”

Part A:
Technical Issues and Technical Judgments in the Decisions Issued by the Commission for the Protection of Competition

• Dimitrios Kyritsakis, Honorary Vice President of the Supreme Court of Greece, President of the Hellenic Competition Commission
• Nikolaos Sekeroglou, Judge at the Hellenic Council of State
• Cleopatra Kallikaki, Judge at the Administrative Court of Appeal of Athens

 The speakers will present their views and experiences with respect to the procedural issues raised within the framework of the following items: scope, limits and consequences of the judicial control of the decisions issued by the Commission for the Protection of Competition; use of economic data as evidence in legal proceedings; confidentiality issues raised by the access to the file of the case.

Intervention by Mrs. Dimitra Kalli, Law Office of the Republic of Cyprus

11:30: Coffee break

Q&A and discussion

13:00: Business lunch

Part B:
The Fundamental Economic Concepts of EU Competition Law
15:00 – 19:30

• Ioannis Kokkoris, Professor at the Queen Mary University of London and Scientific Coordinator of the Project: “General Presentation of the Subject”
• Panayiotis Agisilaou, Former Economic Advisor of the Commission for the Protection of Competition, Teaching Fellow at the Open University of Cyprus: “The Economic Principles Governing the Rules Protecting Free Competition in EU Law and Law of Cyprus»
• Lazaros Grigoriadis, Lecturer of Commercial Law at the University of Neapolis: “The Violations of the Rules Protecting Free Competition in Light of the Economic Analysis of EU Competition Law”

17:30: Coffee break

Q&A and discussion

Friday 27 October, 2017

Part C:
Vertical Agreements and Pricing Practices
09:30 – 13:00

• Nicolas Vettas, Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business: “The Economics of Vertical Agreements”
• Panayiotis Agisilaou, Former Economic Advisor of the Commission for the Protection of Competition, Teaching Fellow at the Open University of Cyprus: “The Economic Rationale of Pricing Practices Contravening Free Competition Law Provisions”

11:00: Coffee break

Q&A and discussion

13:00: Light lunch

Part D:
Mergers and Acquisitions Control
14:00 – 19:00

• Nicolas Vettas, Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business, “The Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions”
• Ioannis Kokkoris, Professor at the Queen Mary University of London, “Review of the Economic Parameters of Mergers and Acquisitions”

15:30: Coffee break

Q&A and discussion

Conclusions and closing of the training workshop