The 3rd meeting of the Open PhD Seminar was devoted to the problems associated with the new economic approach to the application of a prohibition of a dominant position abuse in EC and national law. The discussion was based on the documents issued by the European Commission as a part of the so-called Article 82 reform.
The introductory speech and the following discussion focused on issues such as: the identification of ‘consumer harm’ and its scope, the intersection of consumer and competition harm and finally, the possibility to establish a level of legal certainty of dominating companies concerning an antitrust assessment of their activities.
