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Thursday, 17 May
9:00 Opening Session
Dino de Poli
President Fondazione Cassamarca
Paolo De Girolami
President Treviso BAR Association
Alessandro Vardanega
President Unindustria Treviso
Joë Lemmer
President Unindustria Treviso
Claudio Tesauro
President AAI
Giuseppe Sena
Honorary President LIDC
Cristina Cabella
Representative AIGI
Gabriella Porcelli
Representative ECLA
Bruno Nascimbene
Centro di Eccellenza Jean Monnet
Enrico Adriano Raffaelli
President UAE Competition Law Commission
  10:30
Opening Speech
Giovanni Pitruzzella
Chairman Italian Antitrust Authority
  11:00
Coffee Break
Session I
Damages caused by antitrust infringements
Chairperson: Marina Tavassi
President Specialised Section on Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights – Court of Milan
  11:20
Assessing damages in antitrust cases: a legal and economic perspective
Frédéric Jenny
French Supreme Court
  11:40
The quantification of damages: some evidence-related issues
Gabriella Muscolo
Specialised Section on Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights – Court of Rome
  12:00
Harms deriving from antitrust infringements:  the latest word from the U.S. Courts, and a note of comparison with the EU
Eleanor Fox
New York University School of Law
  12:20
Uses and abuses of economics in the estimation of antitrust damages
Luigi Prosperetti
Università degli Studi di Milano
  12:40
Private antitrust enforcement: recent developments and interplay with public enforcement
Mario Todino
Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners - Bruxelles
  13:00
Lunch
Session II
Antitrust issues in the large-scale distribution sector
Chairperson: Carla Rabitti Bedogni
Member Italian Antitrust Authority
  14:30
Competition issues in the large-scale distribution sector in Italy
Valeria Amendola
Research Office - Italian Antitrust Authority
  14:50
From farm to fork - Challenges in enforcing competition laws in the food supply chain
Paul Csiszár
DG Competition - European Commission
  15:10
Contractual equilibrium between the food industry and large-scale distributors
Luciano Di Via
Bonelli Erede Pappalardo - Roma
  15:30
Large-scale distribution and antitrust: main peculiar features and critical aspects
Gianluca Belotti
Hogan Lovells - Roma
  15:50
Coffee Break
  16:00
Has antitrust risk increased in large scale distribution? A Spanish answer
Almudena Arpón De Mendívil
Gomez-Acebo & Pombo - Madrid
  16:20
Power buyers and the antitrust laws: a U.S. perspective
Laurence Sorkin
Cahill Gordon & Reindel – New York
  16:40
Questions and discussion
  17:00
Close of Conference
Friday, 18 May
Session III
The future of antitrust in the global economy
Chairperson: William Kovacic
George Washington University - Law School
  09:30
National antitrust agencies vs. global offenders: a fair fight?
Bruno Lasserre
Chairman French Competition Authority
  09:50
The national law enforcement challenges
Manuel Sebastião
President Portuguese Competition Authority
  10:10
Trends and problems of the antitrust of the future
Mario Siragusa
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton - Roma
  10:30
Indian competition law: the first experiences of enforcement
Ajay Chauhan
Director General Competition Commission of India
  10:50
The role of international cartel enforcement in the global economy
A. Paul Victor
Dewey & LeBoeuf - New York
  11:10
Coffee Break
Session IV
The enforcement of antitrust laws by judicial authorities
Chairperson: Roberto Chieppa
Secretary General - Italian Antitrust Authority
  11:20
Administrative judges’ review of antitrust decisions
Beniamino Caravita di Toritto
Università La Sapienza - Roma
  11:40
Judicial review of European competition law decisions after Menarini
Marco Bronckers
VVGB Advocaten
  12:00
The role of national judges in the application of State Aid legislation
Massimo Scuffi
President Court of Aosta
  12:20
Collective redress in the national courts for infringement of competition rules – Is reform overdue?
Gerard Barling
President Competition Appeal Tribunal
  12:40
Administrative acts and restrictions of competition: the new powers of the Italian Antitrust Authority
Filippo Arena
Principal Legal Adviser Italian Antitrust Authority
  13:00
Lunch
Session V
Undertakings' Day to Day business and antritrust
Chairperson: Giuseppe tesauro
Italian Constitutional Court
  14:00
Information exchange in the Commission Guidelines on horizontal co-operation agreements
Aldo Frignani
Università degli Studi di Torino
  14:15
Leniency programs and cartel settlement procedures. A company’s perspective
Alessandro Tajana
Senior Legal Counsel – Johnson & Johnson
  14:30
Antitrust fines, alternative measures and compliance
Alberto Pera
Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners - Roma
  14:45
New challenges for in-house counsel in the light of antitrust law and sectoral regulation
Renato Conti
General Counsel - ACEA
  15:00
The tv audience measurement market: in an ever changing world, some things just stay the same
Luca Sanfilippo
General Counsel - Sky Italia
  15:15
New questions around antitrust and product design
Julia Holtz
Senior Competition Counsel - Google
  15:30
Coffee Break
Session VI
Merger control
Chairperson: Jean-François Bellis
Van Bael & Bellis - Bruxelles
  15:45
Mergers, cross shareholdings and interlocking in the financial sector in Italy
Giovanni Calabrò
Competition Director General Italian Antitrust Authority
  16:00
Issues of current interest in the European and Italian merger control regimes
Andrea Zulli
Norton Rose - Milano
  16:15
International and trans-national cooperation in EU merger control
Johannes Luebking
DG Competition – European Commission
  16:30
Minority shareholdings and merger control
Jean-Yves Art
Associate General Counsel - Microsoft
  16:45
Questions and discussion
  17:00
Concluding remarks
Barry Hawk
Director Fordham Competition Law Institute
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Treviso can easily be reached by bus or taxi from Treviso and Venice airports (about 20 minutes).

The Bar of Treviso has assigned 12 credits to the Conference.

Simultaneous Italian - English translation will be provided.