On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Anti-Monopoly Law, the European Chamber is delighted to invite you to join a seminar with Adrian Emch, Co-editor of the book "China’s Anti-Monopoly Law - The First Five Years". NDRC's recent actions against baby milk formula suppliers nation-wide and against gold retailers in Shanghai show the need to understand the authority and its enforcement priority. The discussions in The First Five Years should certainly help with that learning process.
Agenda
16:00-16:30 Registration and Coffee
16:30-16:35 Welcome Remarks, Carl Hinze, Chair of the Legal Working Group, European Chamber
16:35-18:00 Presentation and Q&A
18:00 End of Event
About the book
This volume, comprised of 27 highly informative contributions by more than 40 Chinese government officials, academics, economists, in-house lawyers, and private practitioners, introduces novice practitioners to the complexities of antitrust law in China and provides new insight for those already working in the field.
The First Five Years pulls back the curtain and affords outsiders a fuller view of the enforcement apparatus and procedures. In doing so, the book does valuable service by increasing the transparency of the Chinese system and expanding the ability of observers to analyze the system, debate its operations, and engage the enforcement process intelligently. Among other contributions, the book provides a superb tour through MOFCOM’s merger control process.Chapters by government officials provide helpful additions to our understanding of decision-making and priority-setting within NDRC and SAIC. The First Five Years contains the best study to date of “administrative litigation“– the set of legal controls that confine the discretion of China’s government bodies. The study of public enforcement is supplemented by two excellent chapters on private rights of action.
Speaker
Adrian Emch practises antitrust law. He has broad experience in all aspects of competition law, including merger control, multi-jurisdictional merger filings, cartel investigations and antitrust counseling.
Adrian is a lecturer of competition law and member of the faculty at Peking University's Law School. Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Adrian completed an internship with the Directorate-General of Competition at the European Commission (DG COMP) and was in private practice in Brussels and Beijing in the field of competition law.
Registration
Please register on this website (above) or contact Ms. Zhao Yang at yangzhao@europeanchamber.com.cn / (21) 6385 2023, stating your name and company, by Tuesday, 3 December COB.