TY - BOOK ID - 78497007 TI - Alternative enforcement of competition law PY - 2016 SN - 9462746095 9789462746091 9789462367074 9462367078 PB - Hague, Netherlands : Eleven International Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Competition, Unfair. KW - Competition KW - Competition, Unfair KW - Competition law KW - Fair trade KW - Unfair competition KW - Unfair trade practices KW - Commercial crimes KW - Commercial law KW - Industrial property KW - Torts KW - Advertising laws KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78497007 AB - This research analyses and compares the use of certain alternative enforcement instruments, such as negotiated procedures, markets work, individual guidance and compliance programmes, by the Dutch, UK and French competition authorities. Competition authorities are known for imposing enormous fines on companies that have infringed the law. However, most authorities are equally active in educating, deliberating, influencing or preventing. Alternative enforcement entails a deviation from command-and-control style enforcement and can be characterised as informal, horizontal, compliance-based, restorative, preventative and/or more efficient. This book draws from the differences between the national approaches to show the advantages and downsides of negotiated procedures, markets work, individual guidance and compliance programmes. Also, it provides recommendations to pursue a balance between instrumentality and safeguards within the instruments, and in enforcement policy as a whole. This research will be of interest for both academics and practitioners in the field of competition law and enforcement --Back cover. ER -