The Transformation of European Community Competition Law

摘要: In a 1991 article entitled The Transformation of Europe, Joseph Weiler analyzed the profound changes that have occurred in institutional structure European Community during past two decades. cumulative effect these has been, he claimed, to "transform" Community, alter its basic characteristics. this Article, I focus on competition law system — one central pillars and ask whether it also changed fundamental ways. conclude is process changing even more fundamentally, with potentially profound, as yet largely unrecognized, implications for future Europe beyond.Conventional descriptions project different image; intimations change rarely surface then only at margins discourse. dominant theme "maturation" law, conceptual doctrinal questions been "answered" or "clarified" procedures made fairer efficient. These are important issues, but they not my inquiry. seek instead apply lens designed detect operation forces affecting it.