TY - CHAP

T1 - Tackling Grand Challenges with Competition Law

T2 - Lessons from the Pandemic

AU - Lianos, Ioannis

AU - Minssen, Timo

AU - Kollmar, Christy Lynne

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - All across the globe antitrust authorities responded quickly, determined to tackle the worst impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. While regulators and courts can apply competition and antitrust rules both as enforcing “swords” to achieve public health goals and “enabling” shields to promote specific collaborations, it appears that the “enabling collaborations” function has been particularly important to rapidly facilitate much needed pandemic responses. This chapter describes these developments from a past, present and future perspective. Specifically, it analyses (1) the interaction between competition law and public health, (2) the immediate response of antitrust authorities during the crisis, and (3) new approaches and solutions models. Special emphasis will be placed on the question of whether current pandemic responses could provide competition authorities a future blueprint and toolkit for action and a new role in the public ecosystem to implement needed sustainable development objectives.

AB - All across the globe antitrust authorities responded quickly, determined to tackle the worst impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak. While regulators and courts can apply competition and antitrust rules both as enforcing “swords” to achieve public health goals and “enabling” shields to promote specific collaborations, it appears that the “enabling collaborations” function has been particularly important to rapidly facilitate much needed pandemic responses. This chapter describes these developments from a past, present and future perspective. Specifically, it analyses (1) the interaction between competition law and public health, (2) the immediate response of antitrust authorities during the crisis, and (3) new approaches and solutions models. Special emphasis will be placed on the question of whether current pandemic responses could provide competition authorities a future blueprint and toolkit for action and a new role in the public ecosystem to implement needed sustainable development objectives.

KW - Faculty of Law

KW - competition law

KW - sustainable pharma

KW - grand challenges

KW - public health

KW - coopetition

KW - collaboration

KW - regulatory sandboxes

UR - https://ssrn.com/abstract=3985344

U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.3985344

DO - 10.2139/ssrn.3985344

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781802204407

T3 - New Horizons in Competition Law and Economics series

SP - 281

EP - 297

BT - EU Competition Law and Pharmaceuticals

A2 - Sauter, Wolf

A2 - Canoy, Marcel

A2 - Mulder, Jotte

PB - Edward Elgar Publishing

ER -