15:30 – 16:00 Registrations

16:00 – 16:10 Welcome speeches

Tzina Papantonopoulou – Karatza, Publisher, NOMIKI BIBLIOTHIKI

Aristotelis Panteliadis, Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Association of Enterprises (SEV), Head of SEV Working Committee on “Competition & Market Issues”

16:10 – 16:30  HCC in action – Brief overview of HCC’s activity

Ioannis Lianos, President of the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC), Professor of Competition Law & Public Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London

16:30 – 17:00   Keynote speech

Market Power in the Big Tech Sector: Who Knows What and Why that Matters?

Prof Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College London and Univ. of Rome

17:00 – 18:45  1^st Session: Developments since October 2021 - overview through the eyes of regulators

Coordinator:  Lia Athanassiou, Professor of Commercial & Maritime Law, Law School of the University Athens, Partner, Athanassiou-Gerapetritis [suspended - Minister for Cabinet] & Associates - Law Firm

HCC  - Applying the new Competition Law Act - Changes in policy and soft law  

Hara Nikolopoulou, Vice President, Hellenic Competition Commission

HCC - Major antitrust case-law developments

Athanasia Gavala, Director General, Hellenic Competition Commission

Major national and EU developments in the Electronic Communication Sector - EETT ‘s ex ante & ex post contribution to sustainable competition

Οlga Nodarou, Attorney at Law, Legal Services, Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission (EETT)

Energy policy and competition - RAE’s role & approach

Maria Psalti, Head of Unit II, Legal Services Directorate, Regulatory Authority for Energy, Greece (RAE)

18:45 – 20:00 2^nd  Session: Developments since October 2021 - overview through the eyes of practitioners

EU competition law -  European Commission case law

Nicholas Banasevic, Managing Director, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Brussels

ΕU competition law – Major EU court judgments

Stamatis Drakakakis, Partner, Zepos & Yannopoulos Law Firm

20:00 – 23:00 Conference Cocktail

09:30 - 10:00 Registrations

10:00 - 10:15 Οpening Introduction

Theofanis Christoforou, Former Director responsible on competition law & merger control, Legal Service, European Commission 

10:15 - 10:45 Keynote speech

European Commission - Major competition policy issues

Inge Bernaerts, Director, Policy and Strategy at DG Competition, European Commission

10:45 – 12:00  1^st Session: Digging further into antitrust

Coordinator:  Theofanis Christoforou, Former Director responsible on competition law & merger control, Legal Service, European Commission

Vertical Restrains – The new era

Dimitris Loukas, Partner, Potamitis Vekris Law Firm

Horizontal agreements - information exchange - Joint bidding

Anastasia Dritsa, Partner, Kyriakides Georgopoulos Law Firm

Developments on imposition, collection and management of fines

Kevin Coates, Senior Of-Counsel, Covington

12.00 – 12:20  Coffee Break

12:20 – 13:45  2^nd Session: Investigatory powers and tools - alternative “arsenal” to advance competition policy    

Coordinator: Dimitris N. Tzouganatos, Professor of Law, University of Athens

Dawn raids in the post covid era – what about raiding private premises and “bugging” phones

Georgios Dellis, Professor of Public Law, Law Faculty, University of Athens

Investigatory powers & tools: Dawn raids, AI and new platforms used by HCC - Anonymous Whistleblowing - Cooperation with other public authorities

Eftichia Karkani, Directorate of Chief Legal Officer, Hellenic Competition Commission

HCCs’ alternative “arsenal”: Mapping markets - Sector inquiries - Regulatory interventions

Christina Kechagia, Associate, Koutalidis Law Firm

13:45 – 15:15  Lunch Break 

15:15 – 16:30  3^rd Session: Merger control  

Coordinator: Ilias Soufleros, Professor of Law, University of Athens

Merger control - EU level

Daniel Vowden, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills, Brussels

Merger control - National level

Lefkothea Nteka, Partner, Lambadarios Law Firm

FDI - Foreign subsidies control

Anna Manda, Partner, Karatzas & Partners

16:30 – 17:20  4^th Session: State Aid policy

Coordinator:   Georgios Triantafyllakis, Professor of Law School, Department of Commercial Law, Democritus University of Thrace, General Manager of Legal Services of National Bank of Greece

Crisis State Aid and Distortions in the Internal EU Market

Phedon Nicolaides, Professor at the University of Maastricht and the University of Nicosia, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges

Notion of State Aid – recent developments on CJEU’ and GC’ case-law (October 2021-October 2022)

Dr. Vassilis Karagiannis, Partner, KLC

17:20 – 17:40 Coffee Break

17:40 – 19:00  5^th Session: Special topics

Coordinator:  Alexandra Mikroulea, Associate Professor of Law School, University of Athens

Labor markets & Competition Law

Tania Patsalia, Senior Associate, Bernitsas Law

Private Enforcement developments

Themelis Zamparas, Partner, Dryllerakis & Associates

The new Article 1A of the Greek Competition Law Act (law 3959/2011)

Ioannis Lianos, President of the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC), Professor of Competition Law & Public Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London