Rivas, José --- "Public and Private Enforcement of Competition Law" [2011] ELECD 799; in Govaere, Inge; Quick, Reinhard; Bronckers, Marco (eds), "Trade and Competition Law in the EU and Beyond" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Trade and Competition Law in the EU and Beyond

Editor(s): Govaere, Inge; Quick, Reinhard; Bronckers, Marco

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857935663

Section: Chapter 27

Section Title: Public and Private Enforcement of Competition Law

Author(s): Rivas, José

Number of pages: 11

Extract:

27. Public and private enforcement of
competition law
José Rivas

27.1 INTRODUCTION

I first met Jacques back in 1986 when I was a student at the College of
Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and he was my professor. Never in my wildest
dreams could I have imagined then that one day I would be contributing to
Jacques' liber amicorum! More recently, I have had the personal and
professional pleasure of interacting with Jacques as members of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Global Competition Law Centre. As a newcomer to
this group it is a privilege to be guided and inspired by Jacques' observa-
tions and remarks. In between these two dates, I have come across Jacques
at conferences (on both sides of the Atlantic), at academic events, as a
Commission official, as a practitioner, etc. I have also had the pleasure of
meeting members of his family (all eminent lawyers), notably Hendrik, who
is also a contributor to this well-merited book.
I will not dwell on the high caliber of Jacques as an academic and
practitioner. Others have already done so much better than I could aspire
to. However, I want to highlight one of Jacques' unique features, in which
he truly excels: he is the best `cultural interface' I have ever met and an
unrivalled linguist; a `true European' as Salvador de Madariaga would put
it.
At the beginning of 2010 Jacques contacted me because he was working
on an article that he was considering publishing in World ...