BECCLE-seminar om NOU 2025: Revidert konkurranselov
2025-12-17 10:00 (Europe/Oslo) | Auditorium 4, Det juridiske fakultet, UiB, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1, Bergen, Hordaland, 5010, Norway
BECCLE ønskjer velkomen til seminar om den heilt ferske NOU-en om revidert konkurranselov. Seminaret finn stad 17. desember kl. 10:00–13:00 i Auditorium 4 ved Det juridiske fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen.
Seminaret opnar med ei innleiing ved Kristin Hjelmaas Valla, utvalsleiar, som vil presentere dei sentrale forslaga til endringar som utvalet legg fram. Deretter følgjer ein paneldebatt med deltakarar frå både offentleg forvaltning, akademia og privat næringsliv.
Paneldeltakarar:

Kristin Hjelmaas Valla, utvalsleiar og partnar i Advokatfirmaet Kvale
Hans Petter Håvås Hanson, utvalsmedlem og sjefsøkonom i Konkurransetilsynet
Ronny Gjendemsjø, leiar av BECCLE og professor ved Det juridiske fakultet, UiB
Helge Stemshaug, partnar i Advokatfirmaet BAHR
Karin Fløistad, leiar av Konkurranseklagenemnda og advokat
Marte Brathovde, advokatfullmektig hos Regjeringsadvokaten

Moderator: Lars Sørgard, styreleiar ved BECCLE og professor i økonomi ved NHH.

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Private Enforcement of Competition Law
2026-03-05 10:00
Private enforcement of competition law, particularly through damages actions, has grown significantly across Europe over the past decade. Yet striking the right balance between effective public enforcement and safeguarding the rights of parties harmed by anticompetitive conduct remains a challenge. Despite important legislative initiatives, such as the Damages Directive from 2014, access to justice through national courts varies considerably across jurisdictions.
A key reason is the lack of full harmonization. Procedural autonomy continues to allow divergent national approaches to issues such as litigation funding, disclosure rules, and the balance between protecting leniency applicants and enabling effective claimant actions.
In this seminar, BECCLE is proud to bring together leading practitioners and scholars in the field of competition law. The programme will provide insight into the current regulatory framework, covering EU, EEA, and Norwegian perspectives, and examine a broad range of issues related to private enforcement of competition law. Drawing on practical experience, speakers will discuss how to build a claimant’s case and share concrete case examples, including insights from the UK system and the latest developments from Brussels.
The seminar will be chaired by Thomas Vinje, Senior Counsel at Clifford Chance and external affiliate at the University of Bergen. He will be joined by Nivi Balaji, Counsel at Clifford Chance; Sean Ennis, Professor at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia; and BECCLE’s own Associate Professor Ingrid Barlund.

Title: Private Enforcement of Competition Law
Date and time: Thursday March 5, 10.00 – 11.30
Location: Auditorium 4, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen
The seminar will be streamed, and a link for the stream will be presented here.

BECCLE Competition Policy Conference 2026
2026-06-04 08:00 - 2026-06-05 17:00
Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) is pleased to announce the tenth annual conference on competition policy on 4-5 June 2026 in Bergen, Norway.
This year, the conference will take place at the Norwegian School of Economics. The conference will combine sessions with invited speakers with presentations and discussions of original research papers in the fields of competition law and competition economics.
For the open sessions, we now invite submissions. Submitted papers should be in the field of competition law and economics. We welcome both theoretical and empirical papers, as well as case studies. The full call for papers is available here.
Update on the program, registration etc. will be published on this web page.
Time and date: 4th June at 08:00 until 5th of June at 17:00
Location: Norwegian School of Economics, Helleveien 30
Contact: For any questions, please contact the organizing committee by using the following email address: beccle@nhh.no
Submissions of papers
Papers should be submitted to beccle.papers@nhh.no, no later than February 2, 2026. Submissions should be in pdf format and include a title, abstract (up to 200 words), name of authors, affiliation, and contact details. Submissions of full papers are recommended, but we also consider extended abstracts. Submissions in competition law are particularly encouraged. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by March 1, 2026. All papers will be allocated a discussant, and presenters may be asked to discuss a paper
Keynote speakers and invited sessions
There will be two keynote speakers:

Maarten Pieter Schinkel (University of Amsterdam)
Anne Witt (EDHEC Business School and EDHEC Augmented Law Institute)

In addition, there will be three invited sessions on the following topics:
EU merger guidelines

Emanuele Tarantino (Chief Competition Economist, European Commission)
John Kwoka (Northwestern University)
Chiara Fumagalli (Bocconi University)

The Ongoing Revision of Regulation 1/2003

Peter Whelan (University of Leeds)
Massimiliano Kadar (European Commission)
Cani Fernandez (Spanish Competition Authority)

Merger Efficiencies and Remedies

Alon Eizenberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Christine Zulehner (University of Vienna)
Devesh Raval (Federal Trade Commission)

Additional information
There is no conference fee. We offer lunch free of charge to all attendees. We also offer a conference dinner (free of charge) to all presenters. For updates on the conference, please revisit this website leading up to the conference. Information about the program, registration, and other practical information will be published here.
