Competition Law and Policy at times of Financialisation in the Food Sector

Exploratory Workshop on
‘Competition Law and Policy at times of Financialisation: Concentration, Innovation, Sustainability in the Food Sector’

About this workshop

This invitation only exploratory workshop aims to generate discussion, hopefully opening up new horizons in competition law research. The workshop is part of the series of exploratory workshops regularly organised by the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at UCL Faculty of Laws, under the direction of Ioannis Lianos, in cooperation with other research centres around the world. The last exploratory workshop took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil on the topic of General Purpose Technologies and Competition Law (in collaboration with FGV Sao Paulo). The idea is to have an interactive discussion facilitated by some short introductory presentations (no more than 10 minutes each). Each participant will have the possibility to intervene in the roundtable. The discussions will be managed by a panel chair. There is no need for a powerpoint presentation but there will be powerpoint facilities for those wishing to present.

This workshop is a collaboration between the UCL Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES) and Sciences Po Law School

Programme

12.30  Welcome coffee
13.00 Introduction by Dina Waked and Ioannis Lianos

13.10 Economic concentration of the food sector - superior bargaining power issues in food input and retail markets: what is the role of competition law?
Chair: Ioannis Lianos
Short presentations by

• Koen Deconinck, OECD;
• David Kovo, European Commission- Chief Economist team &
• Marie Laure Allain, CREST

Comments by Paul Csiszar, European Commission DG Comp followed by discussion

15.00 Coffee break

15.20 Financialisation of the food value chain: implications for competition law. Broader implications of financialisation for competition law and policy
Chair: Dina Waked
Short presentations by

• Alina Velias, City University and Ioannis Lianos, UCL
• Pierre Regibeau, CRA

Comments by Jose Azar, IESE followed by discussion

16:50 Coffee break

17.10 Sustainable development goals, innovation and food competition law: towards a new equilibrium?
Chair: Henri Piffaut, French Competition Authority
Short presentations by

• Simon Holmes, UK Competition Appeal Tribunal,
• Elias Deutscher/Stavros Makris, UEA & EUI/Sciences Po &
• Peter Möhringer, Fair Trade
• Pierre Regibeau, CRA followed by discussion

18:55 Workshop ends

This is a by invitation only event. For further info and invitations contact i.lianos@ucl.ac.uk