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    The document announces the 19th annual St. Gallen International Competition Law Forum (ICF) taking place on June 7-8, 2012 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It provides an agenda for the two-day conference covering topics such as the standard of judicial review in antitrust matters, current problems in European merger control, and the compliance defense. The conference will feature prominent competition law experts and decision-makers from authorities and academia discussing these and other hot issues. It aims to debate topics important to the field in a constructive and friendly atmosphere, as the ICF traditionally has.

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    Institute of European and International Business Law

    ICF 19

    th St.GallenInternationalCompetition

    LawForumICF, June7thand8th2012

    Sameprocedureaseveryyear?
    As competition lawyers and economists, we dont need to know Dinner for One to understand that procedure matters. Well-functioning procedures can be the sworn enemy of arbitrariness, whereas bad procedural rules may act as the literal stumbling block when justice should be served.
    The proper role for competition authorities and courts as well as the adequate standard of judicial review in antitrust matters have for long been hotly debated topics, but with the imminent accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights, these discussions have become even more intense. That is why we put these issues on the menu, next to several other topics that are right up on the agenda. Luckily, there are some firmly established procedures at the St. Gallen ICF to discuss even the hot potatoes of competition law in a friendly and constructive atmosphere. Moreover, the ICF is not a Dinner for One but gathers many members of the competition community, among them some of the most important decision-makers and leading thinkers in the field, who will serve you fresh food for thought. Under these circumstances, and even though you may get served some good wine at the ICF as well, we are confident that the event will not quite as much spiral out of control as the famous Dinner for One. Rather, it will stay true to the traditional core values of this conference: academic excellence, open debates, and friendliness. In this spirit, I invite you to join us for the 19th St. Gallen ICF for a procedure that hopefully will turn out as successful as every year!
    PROF. DR. CARL BAUDENBACHER

    President of the EFTA Court, Chairman of the ICF, Luxembourg / St. Gallen

    THURSDAY,June7th2012
    PROGRAMME
    08.45 09.00 Welcome John Temple Lang presiding Commonly accepted errors and misunderstandings in competition law Coffee break Vincent Martenet presiding Effective and fair competition policy: Which role for the authorities and which role for the courts? Lunch Patrick Sommer presiding Current problems in European merger control Bernd Langeheine Andreas Weitbrecht Peter-Carlo Lehrell David Thor Bjrgvinsson Stefano Grassani Marc Steiner Astrid Waser William Kovacic Marco Bronckers Carl Baudenbacher Thomas Hoehn Stefan Bhler

    Moderators
    JOACHIM BORNKAMM

    JudgeandPresidentofChamber, GermanFederalSupremeCourt; HonoraryProfessorattheUniversityofFreiburg Karlsruhe


    VINCENT MARTENET

    10.15 10.45

    PresidentoftheSwissCompetitionCommission; FullProfessorattheUniversityofLausanne Berne/Lausanne


    PATRICK SOMMER

    12.00 13.30

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner, CMSvonErlachHenrici Zurich


    JOHN TEMPLE LANG

    15.00

    Joachim Bornkamm presiding The standard of judicial review in antitrust matters

    SeniorConsultant, ClearlyGottliebSteen&HamiltonLLP; ProfessoratTrinityCollege; SeniorVisitingResearchFellow, UniversityofOxford; FormerDirector,DGCompetition, EuropeanCommission Brussels


    CAROL XUEREF

    16.45 17.00

    Coffee break Carol Xueref presiding The compliance defence: A valid or a circular argument? End Dinner with special event Reto Jacobs Bruno Lasserre

    DirectorforLegalAffairs, EssilorInternationalS.A. Paris

    18.00 19.30

    Speakers
    C A R L B A U D E N BACHER RETO JACOBS PETER-CARLO LEHRELL

    PresidentoftheEFTACourt; ChairmanoftheICF Luxembourg/ t.Gallen S


    M A R C O B R O N C KERS

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner, WalderWyss&Partners Zurich


    WILLIAM KOVACIC

    Chairman,FipraInternational
    MARC STEINER

    Judge,FederalAdministrativeCourt Berne
    ASTRID WASER

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner, VVGBAdvocaten/ vocats; A ProfessorofLawUniversityofLeiden Brussels


    STEFAN BHLER

    Director,CompetitionLawCenter; FormerCommissioneroftheU.S.Federal TradeCommission Washington,DC


    BER ND LANGEHEINE

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner, Lenz&Staehelin Zurich


    ANDREAS WEITBRECHT

    ProfessorattheUniversityofSt.Gallen; Vice-PresidentoftheSwissCompetitionCommission Berne


    D A V I D T H O R B JRGVINSSON

    DeputyDirectorGeneralforMergers, DGCompetition,EuropeanCommission Brussels


    BRUNO LASSERRE

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner, Latham&WatkinsLLP; HonoraryProfessorattheUniversityofTreves Brussels/Frankfurt

    Judge,EuropeanCourtofHumanRights; ProfessorattheUniversityofReykjavik Strasbourg/Reykjavik


    S T E F A N O G R A SSANI

    PresidentoftheFrenchCompetition Authority Paris

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner (HeadAntitrustPractice), PaviaeAnsaldo Milan/Rome


    THOMAS HOEHN

    Director,CompetitionRx;Director, IntellectualPropertyResearchCentre, ImperialCollege; MemberoftheUKCompetitionCommission London

    OFFICIALDINNER with aSPECIALEVENT


    An will be held on

    THURSDAY, JUNE 7

    th

    2012,

    19.30

    FRIDAY,June8th2012
    PROGRAMME
    09.00

    Moderators
    Joaqun Almunia
    GERALD BREI

    Frank Montag presiding


    Opening speech

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner,Homburger Zurich
    PETER FREEMAN

    10.00 10.30

    Coffee break Peter Freeman presiding Has competition analysis become too sophisticated for its own good? Lunch Petra Linsmeier presiding Parent company liability in antitrust Coffee break Gerald Brei presiding Actions for damages and access to competition authorities files Closing remarks
    Christoph Stadler Carles Esteva Mosso Nils Wahl Romina Polley Ian Forrester Andreas Mundt Jacques Steenbergen

    SeniorConsultant,ClearyGottliebSteen&HamiltonLLP; Member,CompetitionAppealTribunal; FormerChairmanoftheUKCompetitionCommission London


    PETRA LINSMEIER

    12.00 13.30

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner,GleissLutz Munich
    FRANK MONTAG

    14.45 15.15

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner,Freshfields; ChairmanoftheStudienvereinigungKartellrecht Brussels

    17.00

    Carl Baudenbacher

    Speakers
    J O A Q U N A L M U NIA CHRISTOPH STADLER

    Vice-PresidentoftheEuropeanCommission, CommissionerforCompetition Brussels


    IAN FORRESTER

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner,HengelerMueller Dsseldorf
    JACQUES STEENBERGEN

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner, White&CaseLLP;HonoraryProfessor, UniversityofGlasgow Brussels


    C A R L E S E S T E V A MOSSO

    DirectorGeneraloftheBelgianCompetitionAuthority Brussels
    NILS WAHL

    JudgeattheGeneralCourtoftheEuropeanUnion Luxembourg

    DirectorPolicyandStrategy, DGCompetition, EuropeanCommission Brussels


    A N D R E A S M U N DT

    PresidentoftheBundeskartellamt (FederalCartelOffice) Bonn


    ROMINA POLLEY

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner, ClearyGottliebSteen&HamiltonLLP Cologne

    AdvisoryBoard
    J O A C H I M B O R NKAMM

    JudgeandPresidentofChamber,GermanFederalSupremeCourt; HonoraryProfessorattheUniversityofFreiburg Karlsruhe


    PETER FREEMAN

    SeniorConsultant,ClearyGottliebSteen&HamiltonLLP,London; Member,CompetitionAppealTribunal; FormerChairmanoftheUKCompetitionCommission London


    V I N C E N T M A R TENET

    PresidentoftheSwissCompetitionCommission; FullProfessorattheUniversityofLausanne Berne/Lausanne


    C A R L E S E S T E V A MOSSO

    DirectorPolicyandStrategy,DGCompetition, EuropeanCommission Brussels


    S V E N N O R B E R G (CHAIRMAN)

    SeniorAdviser, Kreab&GavinAndersonStrategicCommunicationsCounsellors; FormerDirectorinDGCompetitionoftheEUCommission; FormerJudgeoftheEFTACourt


    Brussels
    E R I C M O R G A N DE RIVERY

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner,JonesDay Paris
    P A T R I C K S O M MER

    Attorney-at-LawandPartner,CMSvonErlachHenrici Zurich

    Chair&Organization
    C A R L B A U D E N BACHER

    Information
    PARTICIPATION FEE

    PresidentoftheEFTACourt; ChairmanoftheICF Luxembourg/ St.Gallen

    TheparticipationfeeisEUR1350.(EUR800.foroneday) perpersonincludingwrittendocumentation,refreshments duringconferencebreaks,lunchesonThursdayandFriday, dinneronThursdayaswellastheconferencebookwith contributionsfromthespeakers. Pleasenotethattheregistrationisbinding.Theparticipation feeispayablewithintendaysuponconfirmationofregistration.Theparticipationfeeisrefundedinfullifawritten cancellationisreceiveduntiluptothreeweeksbefore theconferencedate(atthelatestbyMay17th2012).For cancellationsreceivedafterthisdate,norefundcanbemade. Earlyregistrationisrecommended,sincethenumberof participantsislimited!Companiessendingseveralparticipants canenjoyareductionof10percentoftheparticipationfees providedthatalltheparticipantsareclearlymentionedon theregistrationform.
    HOTEL RESERVATION

    M O R I T Z A M E N DE

    LegalSecretaryofthePresident,EFTACourt Luxembourg
    A L E X A N D E R G BEL

    ResearchAssociate,InstituteofEuropeanand InternationalBusinessLawEUR-HSG St.Gallen


    L A R I S S A R O N S I EK

    EventManager,InstituteofEuropeanand InternationalBusinessLawEUR-HSG St.Gallen

    TheInstituteofEuropeanandInternationalBusinessLawwill gladlyassistwithhotelreservations(seeregistrationform).
    THE VENUE

    Accredited by the

    TheconferencewilltakeplaceintheKantonsratssaal(parliamentofthecantonofSt.Gallen),situatedintheabbeydistrict ofSt.Gallen.

    SOLICITORSREGULATIONAUTHORITY

    13CPD Hours

    Registration&InformationFor online registration, visit www.sg-icf.ch.


    Do not hesitate to contact us for further information. Please send the registration form to UNIV E R S I T Y O F S T . G A L L E N Institute of European and International Business Law EUR-HSG Dufourstrasse 59 CH-9000 St. Gallen Phone: +41 71 224 28 66 Fax: +41 71 224 26 11 E-mail: larissa.ronsiek@unisg.ch

    RegistrationForm
    Iherewithregister(pleasecompletetheformand/orattachyourbusinesscard)forthe

    19th St. Gallen International Competition Law Forum ICF June 7th and 8th 2012
    Name: Title: Company: Function: Address: Phone: E-mail:

    Pleasemakeahotelreservationforme: Singleroomsuperior,CHF305,pernight(breakfastincluded),HotelEinstein Singleroom,CHF185,pernight,HotelRadissonSAS Singleroom,CHF162,pernight(breakfastincluded),HotelWalhalla Singleroombudget,CHF90,pernight(breakfastincluded),HotelDom


    Arrival: Numberofnightstobebooked: Date: Signature: Departure:

    THE ICF IS SUPPORTED BY THESE SPON S O R S

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