englischLong-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) are an established model for project financing in the US energy sector. Due to the increasing market integration of renewables, they are also gaining popularity in Germany. The author comprehensively analyzes which legal framework conditions promote [...]

englischThe work represents the first comprehensive scientific elaboration of the highly up-to-date issue of the tender in the EEG 2023. With this instrument, a groundbreaking system change in the promotion of re-newable energies has taken place. This highly innovative concept is analyzed in great [...]

englischAlthough agreements among employers concerning the labor market such as no-poaching agreements have become a focal point of public and private antitrust enforcement in the U.S., there is largely a lack of pertinent decisions and literature in Germany and the EU. Using the developments and [...]

englischInnovation is the origin of technical and thus economic progress. It is regularly the upstream research and development activity that generates innovation. It is therefore important for competition authorities to include R&D in the competitive investigation and to consider the long-term [...]

englischA secure electricity supply is essential for public safety, the economy and the well-being of citizens in Europe. One of the most important entities in cross-border electricity transmission are the Nominated Electricity Market Operators – in short: NEMOs.

NEMOs face a number of [...]

englischIn order to promote investments in very high capacity networks, Articles 76, 79 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 require the national regulatory authorities not to impose obligations for an undertaking designated as having significant market power if they engage in the joint deployment of [...]

englischThis work deals with the complex interaction of the key elements of the prohibition on restrictive agreements in European and German competition law. It does not stop at a meta-legal interpretation based on outcome or interests, but develops the foundations of restrictions by object and [...]

englischThe current German law mandates data sharing only under narrow conditions. The increasing spread of "data-hungry" AI systems is prompting demands for data sharing obligations in other circumstances, directed in particular towards companies in the digital economy.

This study questions whether [...]

englischFrom a factual and legal perspective, the Renewable Energy Law is the catalyst for the energy transition. Comparable to the volatility of wind and photovoltaics, the legal framework is also changing. The final cesura was initiated with the introduction of a promoted tender-based direct [...]

englischEven mergers between hospitals that are required in terms of health policy have to overcome obstacles under antitrust law. The hospital financing and planning law described by the author regulates the competition parameters price, quantity and quality. The formal and material requirements of [...]

englischThe “investment measure” pursuant to Sec. 23 ARegV is the core instrument for the expansion of the electricity and gas transmission networks in the context of the German energy transition. Its importance for implementing the energy transition cannot be overestimated. In this work, the author [...]

englischIn its ruling of March 28, 2019 the European Court of Justice held that the German Renewable Energy Act of 2012 did not constitute state aid (Art. 107 TFEU). In a detailed comparative analysis the author concludes that this decision is applicable to the German Combined Heat and Power Act as [...]

englischThe volume contains the speeches of the 48. Annual Energy Law Meeting of the Institute for Energy Law of the University of Cologne. It deals, in particular, with problems of tenders for distribution grids according to sec. 46 et seq. EnWG, and with the challenges of the integration of [...]

englischIn its 2017 judgements “CTL Logistics” the EJC declared an independent civil court review of the equity of charges for the use of railway infrastructure that are subject to regulation to be inadmissible. The volume analyses the consequences of this judgment for competition law. In [...]

englischThe volume „Innovation im Kartellrecht – Innovation des Kartellrechts“ deals with the challenges of merger control by the increasing importance of innovation competition based upon the cases Dow/DuPont und Bay-er/Monsanto and with the 10. Amendment 2020 to the German Act against Restrictions [...]

englischThe ministerial authorisation under Section 42 GWB has always been a controversial legal instrument, which permits an intended merger despite competitive restraints in exceptional cases. The underlying precondition requires these restraints to be offset by the macroeconomic advantages of the [...]

englischThe so-called company interests determine the directors’ duties within a corporation. There has been an ongoing discussion of this term in German company law for the last 100 years. Recently, it has been receiving new impetus through the ongoing development of corporate social responsibility [...]

englischIn 2017, the German legislator adopted a law that provides for the digitisation of the energy sector. The dissertation deals with legal issues raised by the provisions, especially those rules concerning the equipment of consumers with smart meters. Besides regulatory issues, the author [...]

englischHardly any matter of telecommunications regulation has attracted as much attention as vectoring. As a bridge technology, it promises to promote the urgently needed expansion of broadband networks in a fast and efficient way. However, this requires the exclusion of competing providers in [...]

englischThe volume „Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Fusionskontrolle zwischen Recht, Wirtschaft und Politik“ deals with the challenges of merger control in Germany and Europe in an increasingly globalised and digitalised world. It contains the speeches and protocols given at the conference (1. Kölner [...]

englischThis thesis analyses the legal stipulations regarding costs in the regulation of electricity grid charges according to the Energy Industry Act (EnwG), the Electricity Grid Charges Ordinance (StromNEV) and the Incentive Regulation Ordinance (ARegV). It focuses on the efficiency cost criteria [...]

englischIn the present work, the author examines the question of whether management contracts can be used in the context of the unbundling of vertically integrated energy utilities, in particular at the distribution system level.

So far, the so-called “lease solution” has been favoured. The use of a [...]

englischThis work offers the first doctrinally coherent interpretation of EU primary law for the promotion of renewable energies in the European internal electricity market. Meticulously analysing the case law, the author maps the general doctrinal overlap between the prohibition to grant State aid [...]

englischIn January 2017, a colloquium took place at the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Franz Jürgen Säcker. The colloquium opened with a welcome speech by the President of the Higher Regional Court in Düsseldorf, Anna José Paulsen. Following an [...]

englischWith regard to the 2014’s Commission’s Whitebook, this thesis inquires into the question whether the scope of the EU Merger Regulation should be extended to also cover non controlling minority share acquisitions. Learning from international experiences (Germany, UK, USA), the need for as [...]

englischThe protection of competition according to Art. 101 TFEU by the European Commission and ECJ depends on whether a coordination does have anticompetitive effects. The prevailing theory does share this opinion by referring to the so called more economic approach in the European competition [...]

englischContributing to the ongoing discussion of judicial deference to regulatory decisions, this work analyzes the relevant decision-making problems in ex ante efficiency-cost regulation in the telecommunications and energy sector. It includes businesses’ and regulatory authorities' vantage [...]

englischThe ambitious plan of German politics to shift from nuclear power and fossil fuels to renewables, the so-called ‘Energiewende’ (energy turnaround), significantly depends on whether the electricity from renewable resources can be transported from where it is produced to the main centres of [...]

englischThe work examines the regulatory framework of German energy law in relation to third country investments. The focus is on the so-called third-country-clause (§ 4b German Energy Act), which is based on EEC directives and which provides a specific approval procedure for third country network [...]

englischThe volume deals with highly topical questions in the fields of ‘data property’, privacy and ‘data power’. It contains the papers and proceedings of the conference (5. Göttinger Kartellrechtsgespräche of 22 January, 2016).

With contributions by:

Prof. Dr. Ralf Dewenter, [...]

englischThe articles published in this book concern the topic of ‘safeguarding liberal civil society’ through a legal framework securing freedom for all. Private law has to prove itself as a guarantee for economic and social freedom by providing regulations for reconciling clashing interests in [...]

Das Auslaufen zahlreicher „Konzessionsverträge“ führt derzeit zur Ausschreibung einer Vielzahl von Gas- und Stromnetzen auf der Basis des § 46 EnWG. Gleichermaßen laufen etliche Gestattungsverträge der Kommunen mit den Betreibern von Fernwärmenetzen aus, in denen diesen Wegenutzungsrechte eingeräumt [...]

englischImplementing Art. 28 of European Directives 2009/72/EG and 2009/73/EG into national law, the German legislator has replaced the old regulation concerning so-called “Objektnetze” with a new provision. This new provision in § 110 EnWG provides for exemptions from regulatory law for “closed [...]

englischThe dissertation aims to fit the protection of fashion designs against design copying into a tailored system. The status quo of the protection of fashion designs against design copying is analysed according to German, English, Japanese and US-American Law. Fashion designs can principally be [...]

englischCartel members are jointly and severally liable for damages. This statement raises several questions: Who is jointly and severally liable as addressee of the damages claim stipulated in Section 33 of the German Act against Restraints of Competition? Is there a claim for contribution amongst [...]

englischThe volume „Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen auf staatlich gelenkten Märkten“ – which has the same title as Ulrich Immenga’s dissertation of 1967 – addresses recent developments in Competition, Energy, Banking and Health Law. It contains the speeches of a conference in honour of Ulrich Immenga’s [...]

englischThe work at hand is the first to examine measures of pricing policy that lead to margin squeeze scenarios exploiting criterions of both symmetrical and asymmetrical competition regulation. European competition law and national postal law serve as specific points of reference. In the light of [...]

englischThe fairness test under article 315 of the German Civil Code (BGB) applying on energy prices is commonly regarded as a supplement or correction to competition or regulatory law. The purpose of the study is to find out whether the fairness test may be considered as a third pillar of price [...]

Auf der Tagung “Beihilfenrecht in der Krise – Reform des Beihilfenrechts“ wurden in zwei Blöcken zunächst Potential und Grenzen von Beihilfen und Beihilfenrecht in Krisensituationen am Beispiel der seit 2007 andauernden Finanzkrise ausgelotet und sodann die für 2014 geplante Reform des [...]

Was sind die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Wettbewerbs im Spannungsfeld von Kartell- und Sozialversicherungsrecht? Sollten auch gesetzliche Krankenkassen einer Kontrolle am Maßstab des Wettbewerbsrechts unterworfen werden? Ist Wettbewerb der gesetzlichen Kassen untereinander und mit den privaten [...]

Die Arbeit untersucht erstmals ausführlich die vielfältigen Rechtsfragen, die sich im Zusammenhang mit der Bewirtschaftung von Engpässen in den nationalen Elektrizitätsversorgungsnetzen und an den Grenzkuppelstellen stellen. Anhand einer gründlichen Analyse des rechtlichen Rahmens für das [...]

englischThis study takes up central questions concerning the relation between competition and patent law raised by the current “patent wars” in the IT sector. The author assesses the relevance of FRAND commitments under contract and competition law. He further develops criteria for determining [...]

Obwohl die von der Rechtsprechung vorangetriebene Dogmatik zum materiellen Regulierungsrecht inzwischen einen beinahe unüberschaubaren Detailierungsgrad erreicht hat, sind interdisziplinär-rechtswissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur Entgeltregulierung bisher selten geblieben. Im Rahmen der [...]

Das Werk untersucht das System des entry-exit-Gasnetzzugangs anhand des Regelungsgeflechts von EnWG, GasNZV und Kooperationsvereinbarung (KoV IV) unter Einbeziehung der Festlegungen GABi-, GeLi-, KARLA- und Konni-Gas. Aufgrund der gasspezifischen Besonderheiten wurde ein interdisziplinärer Ansatz [...]

Die Kompetenzen der Europäischen Kommission auf dem Gebiet des Kartell- und Regulierungsrechts sind gewachsen. Dabei sind die Grenzen zwischen Wettbewerbspolitik und anderen Politiken, aber auch zwischen bloßen Empfehlungen und verbindlichen Rechtsakten zusehends verschwommen. Bisweilen scheint die [...]