This volume contains papers presented at the 16th Annual EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop, held at the European University Institute on 17-18 June 2011. This edition of the Workshop examined the emerging and increasingly important use of private rights of action before national courts, and the prospects for legislation and soft law initiatives at the level of the EU. The book has been updated and reflects the European Commission's private enforcement package of June 2013. Furthermore, the experiences of various national jurisdictions are discussed, both within Europe and in the US and Canada. As a whole, the volume explores how public and private enforcement might function harmoniously, as an 'integrated' system, to promote the public interest while ensuring that individual rights created in this field by the EU competition rules are vindicated. The contributors have, however, devoted significant analysis to the tensions between those two modes of enforcement. Authors contributing to this book include:

Enno Ahlenstiel
Donald Baker
Jochen Burrichter
Horst Butz
Scott Campbell
Brian Facey
Tristan Feunteun
Ian Forrester
Andrew Foster
Andrew Gavil
Barry Hawk
James Keyte
Assimakis Komninos
Bruno Lasserre
Frederic Louis
Mel Marquis
Veljko Milutinovic
Luis Silva Morais
Tom Ottervanger
Silvia Pietrini
Mark Powell
John Ratliff
J Thomas Rosch
David Rosner
Mario Siragusa
James Venit