Includes index and glossary.

Contents:Introduction to competition policy and practice -- Competition law background -- Economics of competition law and terminology -- Politics of competition law -- Competition policy objectives -- Us antitrust law and policy -- Development of community competition law -- Development of UK competition law -- Comparison of competition law objectives under community and UK law and policy -- UK competition policy objectives -- Competition law and policy in action -- Futher reading -- Discussion -- Enforcement of community and UK competition law -- Introduction -- EC administrative enforcement framework -- Enforcement developments -- Decentralization -- Modernizing enforcement of community competition law -- Harmonization of national laws -- UK administrative enforcement framework -- Relationship between community and national law -- Globalization and extra-territoriality -- International co-operation and global competition rules -- Further reading -- Discussion -- The control of dominance:Introduction to art 82 of the EC treaty -- Undertakings and the effect on trade between memeber states -- Dominant position -- Abuse -- Exploitative abuses -- Exclusionary abuses -- Specific example:Refusal to supply -- Collective dominance -- Control of dominance in the UK -- The fair trading Act 1973 -- The competition Act 1980 -- Reform of UK anti-monopoly laws -- The competition Act 1998 -- Further reading -- Discussion -- Control of anti-competitive agreements:Introduction to art 81 of the EC treaty -- Articles 81(1) -- Article 81(2) -- Article 81(3) -- Individual exemptions -- Notification -- Block exemptions -- Article 81 and the national courts -- Introduction to UK controls on anti-competitive agreements -- Main issues under the RTPA 1976 -- Changing attitudes under the 1976 Acts -- Reform of UK restrictive trade practice laws -- The competition Act 1998 -- Further reading -- Discussion -- Vertical restraints:Introduction to vertical restraints -- The effects of vertical restraints -- The community treatment of vertical restraints -- Exclusive distribution -- Selective distribution -- Articles81(3)-The exemption system -- Proposals for reform of vertical restraints policy -- The vertical agreements regulation -- The guidelines -- Impact on exclusive and selective distribution -- UK competition law and vertical restraints -- Further reading -- Discussion-- Control of mergers:Introduction -- Historical background to the community controls -- The merger regulation 4064/89 -- Background to UK merger control -- The fair trading Act 1973 -- Diti proposals for reform 1999/2000 -- Independent competition authorities -- Competition based test -- Exceptional case -- Ancillary issues -- Critique -- Further reading -- Discussion -- State aid and state regulation:Introduction to state aid -- Article87(1):The prohibition of state AIDS -- Exemptions -- Procedure and remedies -- Recent and future developments -- State regulation -- Measures adopted by the state -- State regulation and undertakings -- Further reading -- Discussion -- Overview:Policy developments and practical implications:Introduction -- Policy level -- Practical implications -- Discussion.