Perspectives from the Belgian Competition Authority

In collaboration with the IBJ/IJE

Damien Gerard, the new Prosecutor General of the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) and Griet Jans, Chief Economist at the BCA since 2020, will provide a snapshot of the BCA’s activities and ongoing projects. In addition to providing a state of play, they will discuss what’s to come for competition law in Belgium and the priorities of the BCA going forward.

Topics covered include:

• Antitrust: current issues relating to leniency, settlements, commitments, fines and substantive issues such as price signaling and exchange of information
• Concentrations: gun jumping issues, the increased use of data and economic tools in merger assessment, and general debates surrounding (local) market definitions and efficiencies
• Recent and upcoming policy initiatives relating to abuse of economic dependency, digitization, sustainability, and labor market issue
• BCA capacity building in terms of budget, people and instruments

The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session moderated by Crowell & Moring partners Thomas De Meese and Karel Bourgeois. 

If you would like to submit a question beforehand, please reach out to Thomas De Meese at tdemeese@crowell.com and/or Karel Bourgeois at kbourgeois@crowell.com.