DOPVPA4 Legal Protection of Competition

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Josef Bejček, CSc.
Department of Commercial Law – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites
Basic pronciples of competition policy and of the economic analysis of competition law rules are dealt with in this course. The course is focused on European competition law in practice of the European Commission and of the Court of Justice of the EU is int he middel .Therefore, the very basic prerequisit is good command of antitrust law and of general European law on the graduate level.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are following:deepening the theoretical knowledge of competition law from the basic course on this subject. Gettin familiar with the decision making practice of national antitrust authority, national courts, including the Constitutional Court.
Learning outcomes
Widening and deepening of knowledge of general antirust law in EU- context. Developing of abilities to perform economic and legal analyses of leading cases in our country and in the EU. Ability to identify antirust related issuses connected with respective topic of PH.D project and to solve them.
Syllabus
  • 1. Competition law, its substance and impact 2. Economic foundations of competition law 3. European competition policy 4. Art. 81 of the European Treaty 5. Horizontal and vertical agreements distorting competition 6. Art. 82 of the European Treaty 7. Mergers and acquisitions 8. Czech legal regulation of antitrust 9. IPR and competition law 10. Competition in high-tech industries 11. Globalization and competition law 13.Public subsidies and competition 14. Anaylysis of decions of the Antitrust authorities and courts - both Czech and European ones
Literature
    required literature
  • BEJČEK, Josef, Petr HAJN, Jarmila POKORNÁ, Jaromír KOŽIAK, Radek RUBAN, Josef ŠILHÁN, Eva TOMÁŠKOVÁ a Eva VEČERKOVÁ. Obchodní právo. Obecná část. Soutěžní právo. 1. vyd. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2014. xxvii, 383. ISBN 9788074005473.
  • MUNKOVÁ, Jindřiška, Jiří KINDL a Pavel SVOBODA. Soutěžní právo. 2. vyd. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2012. xxvi, 619. ISBN 9788074004247.
    recommended literature
  • Bejček, Josef. Soutěžní politika a fúze v evropském kontextu. 1. vyd. Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 2010. 389 s. Acta Universitatis Brunensis Iuridica 366. ISBN 978-80-210-5067-9.
  • RAUS, David a Andrea ORŠULOVÁ. Zákon o ochraně hospodářské soutěže. Komentář. 1. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2014. 666 s. Komentáře Wolters Kluwer. ISBN 978-80-7478-470-5.
  • NEJEZCHLEB, Kamil, Zuzana HAJNÁ a Josef BEJČEK. Ekonomické metody v soutěžním právu. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014. 299 s. ISBN 978-80-210-7701-0.
  • Fox, E.M., Gerard, D.: EU Competition Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham 2017, ISBN 9781786430830ISBN
  • European Union law of competition. Edited by Vivien Rose - David Bailey. 7th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ccxxx, 143. ISBN 9780199660148.
Teaching methods
theoretical studies, homework reading, analysis of case law and comments submitting written theses (in extent of 15 pp as the minimum) related to the research programme and its defence taking active part in a moderated discussion on given topic
Assessment methods
qualified assessment f the outputs introduced above by the guarantor of the course
Language of instruction
Czech
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Autumn 2021.
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