Criminal Law Principles And The Enforcement Of Eu And National Competition Law A Silent Takeover Marc Veenbrink by Marc Veenbrink 9789403514345, 9789403514413, 9789403514444, 9403514345, 9403514418, 9403514442 instant download after payment.

Criminal Law Principles and the Enforcement of EU and National Competition Law' offers the first book-length study of whether courts do indeed apply criminal law principles in competition law proceedings and, if so, how these principles are adapted to the needs and characteristics of competition law. Although Article 23(5) of EU Regulation 1/2003 provides that competition law fines ?shall not be of a criminal law nature?, this has not prevented certain criminal law principles from finding their way into European Union (EU) competition law procedures. Even more significantly, the deterrent effect of competition law fines has led courts in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (UK), as well as the European Court of Human Rights, to conclude that competition law proceedings can lead to a criminal charge. It is shown that criminal law has some impact on the administrative law enforcement of the competition law rules, albeit in a somewhat incoherent and fragmentised manner.