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Preparing for FIDE XXIV: the UK reports

Topic 1: 'The European and National Parliaments' by Paul Hardy

This report is in the form of responses to a FIDE questionnaire on the role of national parliaments in the EU and the relationship between national parliaments and the European Parliament. The report explains in detail how the House of Commons scrutinises proposals for EU leglisation and policy, and how it seeks to influence the positions taken by ministers in the Council. It also looks at the enhanced role of national parliaments under the Lisbon Treaty, and the mechanisms being put in place to ensure that this new role is translated into parliamentary procedure in Westminster
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Topic 2: 'The Judicial Application of European Competition Law' by Christopher Brown and Diarmuid Ryan

This report surveys a number of important proedural and substantive issues in competition litigation in the UK, including the interplay between administraitve and private enforcement, limitation periods, disclosure, collective redress, types of damages recoverable, the "passing on" defence, other quantum and causation issues, and costs. All of these issues have a potentially significant bearing on the incentives for pursuing private actions for breach of competition law and thus on the effectiveness of private enforcement of competition law more generally.
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Topic 3: 'Public Capital and Private Capital in the Internal Market - Securing a level playing field for public and private enterprises' by Dr Wolf-Georg Ringe

This report looks at risks of distortion of competition which may result from the use of public capital rather than private capital for companies. The topic is of particular relevance to the number of companies in public ownership following a number of bail outs in the recent financial crisis. Distortions for competition may also result from the variations in Member States’ definitions of public interests and in the instruments used to achieve public interest goals. The report covers issues of company law, competition law, administrative and constitutional law as well as state aid law.
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