Speaker, “Key legal issues from environmental and competition lawyers,” Access to Justice and Public Participation in Environmental Matters in EU Member States Concerning Decisions on State Aid, May 31, 2023
Speaker, Association of Belgian Bars (avocats.be), "The Application of EU State Aid Law by National Courts," June 21, 2022
Speaker, Chair, and Organizer, Annual Conference on European State Aid Law 2021, October 21-22, 2021
GCR Connect: State Aid Panel, “State Aid and the Pandemic," September 21, 2021
ERA State aid Litigation webinar, presented on Enforcement of State aid Law in national court proceedings (focus on recovery), 12 February 2021
118th GCLC Virtual Lunch Talk, moderated a panel on the first judgments on Covid-19 State aid decisions: Ryanair v Commission, March 30, 2021
State aid webinar, presented on State aid and COVID-19 at Concorrenze, an Italian-based competition think-tank organization, January 21, 2021
Alternative modes and competition law webinar, presented on so-called settlement procedures before the European Commission organized by various Paris universities, January 18, 2021
Chaired the 2020 Digital Edition of the Advanced EU Competition Law Covid-19 & Competition Law Focus Day and presented on State Aid & Covid-19 with Greek and Hungarian officials, webinar, September 7, 2020
Covid-19, Green Deal, Brexit, State Aid responses in times of crisis webinar, presented on the Enforcement of EU State Aid Law in National Court Proceedings at the Informa, July 2, 2020
EUCLID webinar, presented on the European Commission’s White Paper dealing with the Distortive Effects Caused to the EU Single Market by non-EU Country Subsidies, June 25, 2020
ERA webinar on EU State Aid Litigation, presented on the Enforcement of EU State Aid Rules in National Court Proceedings, June 19, 2020
PaRR webinar, presented on the Covid-19 EU State Aid Rules, June 11, 2020
AFEC (French competition law association) webinar, presented (with Olivier Guersent, director-general of DG Competition of the European Commission) on State Aid Aspects of the Covid-19 Crisis and on Future EU Competition Law Reforms, June 8, 2020
Concurrences' Quarentine Webinar Series: State Aid in the COVID-19 Context, Paris, April 14, 2020
Chaired the ERA Annual State aid conference and presented on EU Case Law Developments, Trier, Germany, November 14-15, 2019
KNect365 International Tax Litigation Conference, presented on EU State Aid and Taxation, London, October 16, 2019
Held EU competition law training seminars (ERA, supported by the European Commission) for French, Luxembourg and Belgian judges on EU State Aid Law Principles for National Courts, Paris (September 6, 2019), Brussels (September 27, 2019)
KNect365 State Aid Litigation Conference, Recovery of Aid and other Procedural Developments, Brussels, July 4, 2019
AFEC (Association Française d’Etude de la Concurrence (AFEC) seminar), The Micula case and the interaction between investment protection arbitration and EU law, Paris, July 3, 2019
Chillin’ State Aid Workshop, Selectivity and Advantage, Brussels, June 14, 2019
EStALI Interactive Forum on European State Aid Law, The obligation to open the formal investigation procedure (is the Commission’s interpretation of “serious doubts” in line with that of the EU Courts?), Vienna, June 7, 2019
IXAD (University of Lille), State aid, Lille, June 6, 2019
109th Global Competition Law Centre, College of Europe Lunch Talk, Commentated on Carole Maczkovics’ presentation on Competition enforcement priorities for the next European Commission: What should the next five years bring in antitrust, merger control and state aid?, Brussels, May 27, 2019
ERA, State Aid Litigation Conference, Enforcement of State aid law in national courts proceedings, Brussels, May 24, 2019
AFEC (Les droits de la concurrence d’une réforme à l’autre) at the Association Française d’Etude de la Concurrence seminar, Selected developments in EU State aid law, Paris, May 23, 2019
University of Lille (IXAD), State aid, Lille, May 17, 2019
Florence School of Competition Online Debate: The GB Capacity Market Standstill: What is Happening and Why?, Webinar, Investigating the Impact of the Tempus State Aid Judgment, April 17, 2019
Comp Law at Knect365 Law, State Aid Developments, Brussels, April 9, 2019
University of Lille (IXAD), Procedure of preliminary reference from national courts to the Court of Justice of the European Union, Lille, February 8, 2019
14th Annual Conference of the GCLC, The State aid system of remedies: distinction between prospective and restorative remedies, Brussels, January 31st , 2019
Paris Commercial Court, Entretiens de la concurrence, L'organisation du procès devant le Tribunal de commerce (Belgique), November 23, 2018
ERA, Annual Conference on European State Aid Law 2018, Chairman and speaking on State aid post-Brexit: quo vadis? & Practical impact of recent case law: challenges for national administrations, courts and undertakings, Trier, November 8 and 9, 2018
Knect365 International Tax Dispute Resolution & Litigation Summit 2018, State aid and tax rulings, London, October 9, 2018
Brussels Summer School on EU Competition Law, General Introduction, Origins, Sources, Notion of Aid (general), Administrative Procedure and Role of National Courts, Brussels University, September 8, 2018
Knect365 State aid, Brexit: What is the future of State aid in the UK? Brussels, July 5, 2018
"Prospect of Brexit and EU Competition Law," 100th GCLC Lunch Talk, May 22, 2018
ERA, EU State aid Litigation Public & private State aid enforcement, Brussels, May 18, 2018
IADC (International Corporate Counsel College), 21st Century Government: Friend or Foe? How to work with it and around it, "Follow-up on follow-on actions" (implementation of the EU damage directive), Amsterdam, November 10, 2017
ERA, Annual conference on European State aid law, Chairing the conference and speaking on the Role and impact of State aid rules in the Brexit negotiations: implications from the EU and UK standpoints, Trier, November 9, 2017
ASAE (Association pour le suivi des aides d'Etat), Les droits des entreprises bénéficiaires d’aide d’Etat: dysfonctionnements et best practices nationales, Droits du bénéficiaires et interactions entre procédures juridictionnelles internes et procédures de la Commission européenne, Paris, November 8, 2017
"The EU State Aid Law," New State Aid Law in Ukraine: Opportunities and Challenges, October 3, 2017
"State Aid and Tax Rulings: Is There Really a Competition Issue?" New Frontiers of Antitrust 2017 Conference, June 26, 2017
ERA, State aid proceedings and litigation, Recovery of unlawful and incompatible aid, Brussels, May 20, 2017
Queen Mary University of London – Baker McKenzie Annual Conference, The EU State aid prohibition: a distortion of international competition? Speaking on export of EU State aid rules, Brussels, May 12, 2017
"Brexit: Effects in EU and Asia in Competition Law," 6th Annual Global Competition Law Summit, Hong Kong, April 26, 2017
Silicon Valley Association of General Counsel, "European Competition Law in the Nationalist Era: What You Need to Know at the Dawn of Divergence", April 21, 2017
KULeuven – Studienamiddag “Staatssteun: de rechtspositie van steunverlenende overheden”: The passage from ex ante to ex post control: state of play, block exemption regulations and de minimis, Leuven, 31 March 2017
Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) of the College of Europe, The World Duty Free/Santander/Lübeck judgments of the CJEU: a welcome clarification or back to square one?, Selectivity and State aid, 88th lunch talk of the GCLC, Brussels, 6 March 2017
French association for State aid monitoring (ASAE), French Business confederation (MEDEF), discussing State aid control in the EU in the context of globalization (international law, Brexit, Free Trade Agreement, Arbitration), February 20, 2017
EBP & Sheppard Mullin, Marchés publics et aides d’Etat, co-organising, chairing and speaking at the EBP Public Procurement Conference; speaking on the interaction between public procurement and State aid, Brussels, 13 December 2016
Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC), College of Europe, chairing the 87th lunch talk of the GCLC - The Fate of Complaints in the post-Modernization Context: What Complainants Should Know, Brussels, 12 December 2016
Master Class du Droit public de l'économie d'Assas, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), concurrence et aides d'Etat (speaking on latest State aid developments in 2016) , Paris, 8 December 2016
GCR GCR Live State Aid, State aid in infrastructure investment (rail and road infrastructures), Brussels, 30 November 2016
ERA, Academy of European Law, co-organizing and chairing the Annual State aid conference, Trier, Germany, 24-25 November 2016
Cuckoo’s Nest/BootUp Ventures, Is Europe Still an Attractive Unified Market for U.S. Corporations? Successfully Expanding Into Europe, Palo Alto, 14 November 2016
Stanford University, The Europe Center, The Future of Multi-National Corporate Taxation in the European Union –Impact of On-Going EU State Aid Investigations, Stanford, 14 November 2016
Florence School of Regulation Energy Law Training, EU State Aid And The Energy Sector, Implications For Network Operators After The EEG State Aid Case, Brussels, 8 November 2016
Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC), College of Europe, chairing the 85th lunch talk on Merger Control Series (3) - Post mortem: Pitfalls for remedies and their implementation, Brussels, 24 October 2016
Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC), College of Europe, chairing the 82nd lunch talk on Selectivity on Trial: a Critical Discussion of Recent State Aid Developments, Brussels, 8 July 2016
LIDC, International League of Competition Law, Financial Services and Competition Law, State aid Aspects: From Rescue To Restructure, Geneva, 7 October 2016
ERA, Academy of European Law, Summer Course on State aid, Trier, 8 July 2016
European State aid Law Institute (Estali), Workshop on Tax Rulings Under State Aid Scrutiny, Brussels, 10 June 2016
ERA, Academy of European Law, State aid proceedings and litigation - Recovery of unlawful and incompatible aid, Brussels, 19 May 2016
Chillin’Competition Conference, Into Uncharted Territory – Panel presentation on State Aid Brussels, 19 November 2015
IBC Conference,Competition Law and Regulation in the Energy Sector 2015 - Recent developments in State Aid, Brussels, 17 November 2015
ERA, co-organising, chairing and speaking at the Annual State aid conference - Tax rulings and State aid - Recovery of State aid, latest developments, Trier, Germany, 12-13 November 2015
ERA, Summer course on competition law, course on State aid, Trier, Germany, 10 July 2015
ERA, State aid proceedings and litigation, Recovery of unlawful aid, Brussels, 21 May 2015
Association pour l'étude du droit de la concurrence (Belgian association for the study of competition law) - State aid modernisation, Brussels, 16 December 2014
French National Assembly - Testifying as EU State aid expert before the Committee of Economic Affairs on the international dimension of EU State aid control in the context of the needs for innovation within the international competition between regions of the world, Paris, 10 December 2014
ERA, Co-organising, chairing and speaking at the Annual State aid conference -Recent case law on notion of aid, role of national courts, impact of financial crisis State aid modernisation: the way forward, Trier, Germany, 13-14 November 2014
Revue Concurrences, State Aid workshop on the new EU guidelines for rescue and restructuring aid, Brussels, 4 November 2014
ERA, summer course on EU State aid rules at the ERA Summer Course on EU Competition Law, Trier, Germany, 11 July 2014
Brussels School of Competition and Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (BSC-LCII) - Chairing a conference on commitments under EU competition law, Brussels, 5 June 2014
French Association for the Study of Competition Law, AFEC, University of Versailles and the Paris Commercial Court -– La Réparation des dommages concurrentiels en France et en Europe: état des lieux et changements à venir – Speaking on antitrust damages actions, and the new EU directive, Paris, 13 May 2014
PubAffairs Bruxelles – Chairing a panel debate on the notion of aid (with Clemens Kerle, DG COMP and Bertrand Jéhanno, French State) - Consultation on the draft notice on the notion of State aid launched by the Legal Service and DG COMP of the European Commission, Brussels, 4 March 2014
Academic Teaching
University of Liège (since 2006) - Le droit des aides d'Etat, LL.M on Competition and IP law
Brussels School of Competition (since 2011) - The Law and Economics of State Aid (with Joachim Wiemann, DG COMP, European Commission and Vincent Verouden, E.CA Economics, former deputy Chief Economist for State aid, DG COMP)
University of Lille (since 2015) - Teaching élèves-avocats (Lille Bar - IXAD Ecole des Avocats Nord-Ouest, Faculté de Droit) on the procedure of preliminary reference from national courts to the Court of Justice of the European Union
[List limited to articles and books since 2012]
- EU State Aid Control During COVID-19, Competition Law International, Vol 16, No 1, October 2020, pp 21-30.
- A Chronicle on the Application of the EU State Aid Rules in Belgian Cases in 2017-2019, Competitio, 2020, pp 207-228.
- Review of the June 18, 2019 ruling EU General Court, Micula, Joined Cases T-624/15, T-694/15 and T-704/15, e-Competition Bulletin blog, June 2019
- Morceaux choisis de récents développements du droit des aides d’Etat (Selected pieces of recent State aid law developments), Contrats concurrence Consommation (proceedings of AFEC Conference of May 23, 2019 in Paris) n°7, July 2019
- Quarterly case comments on State aid in Revue Concurrences since 2004 (in French)
- Aid Recovery, in State Aid in the Energy Sector, L. Hancher, A. de Hauteclocque, F. Maria Salerno, co-eds, Hart Publishing, Florence School of Regulation, 2018, pp. 496, spec. pp. 1-25
- The Powers and Obligations of National Courts with Regard to Unlawful State Aid: Lessons from CELF I and CELF II, in Milestones in State aid case law, Estali, Milestones in State Aid Case Law, EStAL’s First 15 Years in Perspective, C. Buts & J.-L. Buendía Sierra, co-eds, Lexxion, 2017, pp. 342-355
- Distortion of Competition and Effect on Trade Between Member States in EU State Aid Control: Law and Economics, Chapter 5 (with Vincent Verouden), Wolters Kluwer, 2017, pp. 20 (Philipp Werner, Vincent Verouden (eds))
- Commission v World Duty Free Group a.o.: selectivity in (fiscal) State aid: quo vadis Curia?, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2017, Vol. 8, No. 5, Oxford University, pp. 311-313
- Chronique de jurisprudence européenne - Aides d’État (2011-2015), Chapitre 1 – Les règles de fond, Cahiers de droit européen, 2016/2, pp. 687 – 827 (a comprehensive review of the EU case law on State aid), with Marianne Dony
- Chronique « Aides d’Etat »: Application des règles sur les aides d’Etat dans des affaires concernant la Belgique (juridictions belges et européenne, Commission européenne). Années 2014, 2015, 2016, Revue de la Concurrence Belge – Tijdschrift voor Belgische Mededinging (with Wim Vandenberghe), 2017/3, pp. 1-50
- L’autorité de chose jugée à l ’épreuve du droit de l’Union européenne – Du principe d’effectivité en général et des règles spécifiques en matière d’aides d’État en particulier, in Contentieux du droit de la concurrence de l’Union européenne : questions d’actualité et perspectives (V. Giacobbo & Chr. Verdure, éditeurs), Larcier, Bruxelles, 2017, pp. 349 -383 (res judicata and primacy of EU law)
- Chronique de jurisprudence européenne - Aides d’État (2011-2015), Chapitre 1 – Les règles de fond, Cahiers de droit européen, 2016/2, pp. 687 – 827 (a comprehensive review of the EU case law on State aid), with Marianne Dony
- Key Developments in State Aid Law - 2015 (with Mateo Domecq), Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Oxford University Press, 2016, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 135-149
- Key Developments in State Aid Law - 2014 (with Jan Blockx, Sofia Doudountsaki & Jaime Rodriguez-Toquero), Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Oxford University Press, 2015, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 210-217
- Recent Developments in State Aid Law - 2013 (with Peter Citron, Mateo Domecq and Tom Mylrea-Lowndes), Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Oxford University Press, 2014, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 53-61
- Chronique "Aides d'Etat" - Application des règles sur les aides d'Etat dans des affaires concernant la Belgique (juridictions belges et européennes, Commission européenne) - Années 2011-2013 (with Jan Blockx), Tijdschrift voor Belgische Mededinging - Revue de la Concurrence Belge (TBM-RCB), 2014-4, pp. 301-334
- Round up of EU Competition Law Developments - 2012 (with Peter Citron), Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Oxford University Press, 2013, Vol. 4, No. 2, 192-198
- Recovery of Unlawful State Aid and Determination of Beneficiaries: Guidance for National Courts, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, OUP, Vol. 3, No. 5, 2012 (case comment on the Residex ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 8 December 2001)
- Chronique de jurisprudence européenne – 2008-2010 – Aides d’Etat, Cahiers de droit européen, 2012/2, pp. 679-765 (a comprehensive review of the EU case law on State aid), with Marianne Dony
- La récupération des aides illégales et incompatibles - Un tour d'horizon sélectif de la jurisprudence européenne depuis la communication « récupération » de 2007 de la Commission européenne, Concurrences, n° 1/2012, pp. 73-86
- The Scope of Judicial Review in EU Economic Cases, in Proceedings of the 2010 Annual conference of the GCLC on EU Judicial Review, Bruylant, 2012, pp. 73 – 83
- Round up of key EU competition developments - 2011, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Oxford University Press, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2012, pp 217-222
Books
Since 2012:
- Le concept de “bénéficiaire” en matière de récupération d’aides d’Etat illégales et incompatibles (The “beneficiary” concept in the recovery of unlawful and incompatible State aid) published in “L’Europe au kaléidoscope”, Liber Amicorum Marianne Dony, Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 2019
- Introduction (2019 edition) to State Aid Know-How, Global Competition Review (GCR), Jacques Derenne & Dimitris Vallindas (co-authors), 2019
- Belgian Chapter in Getting the Deal Through: State Aid 2019 (with Dimitris Vallindas), 2019
- Introduction (2018 edition) to State Aid Know-How 2018, Introduction (with Dimitris Vallindas) Global Competition Review (GCR), September 13, 2018, pp. 2-9
- Belgian Chapter in Getting the Deal Through: State Aid 2018 (with Dimitris Vallindas), 2018, pp.14-22
- State aid chapter in European Commentary Law, A Case Commentary, Second Edition, W. Verloren van Themaat & Berend Reuder, co-eds, Elgar Commentaries, 2018, pp. 1024, spec. pp. 216-290
- Belgian Chapter in Getting the Deal Through: State Aid 2017 (with Dimitris Vallindas), pp. 1-7
- Antitrust damages in EU law and policy, Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC), College of Europe, GCLC Annual Conference Series n°5, Jacques Derenne, Eric Morgan de Rivery & Nicolas Petit (co-editors) and author of the introduction, Bruylant, 2015, pp. 185
- Sourcebook on EU Competition Law 2015, (State aid chapter) in Les Codes thématiques Larcier, 5th Ed. 2015
- European Competition Law. A Case Commentary, State aid chapter, Verloren van Themaat Weijer and Reuder Berend (eds), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014, pp. 870
- Competition Law in times of Economic Crisis : in Need of Adjustment?, Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC), College of Europe, GCLC Annual Conference Series n° 4, Massimo Merola, Jacques Derenne & José Rivas (co-editors), and coordinator of the Chapter on “State aid and the financial crisis”, Bruylant, 2013, pp. 649
- The Role of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Competition Law Cases, GCLC Annual Conference Series n° 2, Massimo Merola & Jacques Derenne (co-editors), and author of “The Scope of Judicial Review in EU Economic Cases”, Bruylant, 2012, pp. 250
