EC Competition Law Procedure and European Convention on Human Rights

This book is an attempt to explore the interrelationship between the European Community competition law procedure and the European Convention on Human Rights. Specifically, the book assesses the overall compliance of the framework and procedure for the enforcement of competition law in the European Community with the norms and case law of the European Convention on Human Rights. Though the European Community is not a party to the Convention, the Member States of the Community who are saddled with the responsibility of enforcing the Community's decisions against business undertakings in the field of competition law, are all parties to the Convention. If the procedure for arriving at those decisions is not compliant with the Convention, to what extent then could these Member States assist in enforcing sanctions in keeping with their obligations under Community law, and still operate within their obligations under the Convention. This book tries to explore this question, and in general is concerned with the unusual subject of human rights protection for corporations in corporate law. It calls for a major change to the way competition law is enforced in the European Community.