Objective
This seminar is part of ERA’s series of advanced
training courses on EU competition law. It is aimed at providing a
thorough and detailed overview of the conduct of dawn raids by the
European Commission and national competition authorities in the light of
the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and the case law of the
CJEU and of the ECtHR.
The sessions will focus on the main issues that could arise at different
stages of the inspection and enhance participants’ knowledge through
practical exercises.
Key topics
- Essential stages of the dawn
raid
- Main issues that arise during an
inspection
- Reasonable grounds for suspicion and
fishing expeditions
- Objecting vs obstructing
- Gathering of digital
evidence
- Handling of legally privileged
documents, business secrets and other confidential
information
- The impact of the ECN+
Directive
Who should
attend?
Staff of national competition authorities, lawyers in
private practice, in-house counsel.