Session 1
Coordination of procedures
13th, 14th and 15th October 2022

THURSDAY 13th October

16:00 Coffee and registration

16:30 Welcome address by Judicial Authorities, Dean of the Faculty and Director of the Programme

17:00 Opening Speech: Obtaining effective enforcement of competition law – public and private enforcement, coordination of civil procedures.

18:00 Coffee break

18:30 Panel 1: Administrative procedure before the Commission and NCAs (a primer for civil judges)

- The investigative phase (powers of authority, rights
of parties). Leniency.

- Hearing procedure and powers of the hearing
officer. Confidentiality.

- Adoption of Decisions and calculation of fines.

20:00 Cocktail

FRIDAY 14th October

9:30 Panel 2: The relationship between administrative and civil proceedings

- Binding effect of the administrative decision and jurisdiction of the civil court.

- Coordination between administrative and civil
procedures: stays, limitation.

- The role of the competition authority in civil
proceedings (e.g. amicus curiae).

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Panel 3: Grouping of civil claims in a single jurisdiction

- Mechanisms for claims aggregation: collective actions,
assignment, joinder.

- Role of investment funds and treatment in civil procedure.
- Case management of mass claims.

14:00 Lunch

16:00 Panel 4: Coordination of procedures filed in different EU member States.

- Territorial jurisdiction in cross-border cases with a
plurality of procedures.

- De facto and de iure coordination between courts
(including case of direct and indirect actions).

- Use in one procedure of information and evidence
obtained in a different procedure.

18:00 Coffee

18.30 Workshop: Exchange of experiences about procedural matters in the jurisdictions of the participants following a common questionnaire.

21:00 Dinner

SATURDAY 15th October

10:00 Mock Trial: Case management hearing dealing with a request for grouping multiple claims.

12:00 Coffee break

12:30 Closing judicial speech: The status of collective actions in the EU and the case for a greater national and/or EU coordination of actions (an EU MDL?)

13.30 Closing ceremony

14:00 Spanish wine