"Preface" [2014] ELECD 875; in VerLoren van Themaat , Weijer; Reuder, Berend (eds), "European Competition Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) xxiii

Book Title: European Competition Law

Editor(s): VerLoren van Themaat , Weijer; Reuder, Berend

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783476862

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

PREFACE




There are probably few rules that have provoked so much thought, arguments and,
ultimately, judgments as the European Treaty rules on competition. This book aims to
explain those rules by presenting them and the related European (human rights)
legislation together with case extracts from the most important Commission decisions
and court cases pertaining to those provisions.
The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the competition provisions of
the EU Treaties and the main EU regulations on competition. Part 2 discusses the
relevant provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and the European
Convention on Human Rights.
The case extracts were selected for their interpretative value for the relevant provi-
sion. The extracts originate mostly from decisions of the European Commission and
judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of
Human Rights. Although most come from landmark cases, some have been taken from
decisions or judgments that are less well known but shed new light on the interpretation
of the Treaty or that otherwise fill a gap of some kind. In all instances, however, it is the
extract that explains the law, rather than the authors of this book. To that end, the
ambition of the authors is to present a compilation of concise extracts that are both
objective and comprehensible. For the convenience of the reader, the references in the
case extracts to the articles of the various treaties have been renumbered so that they ...