The Monitoring and Enforcement of Commitments by way of Arbitration in EU Competition Law

This book, which was submitted as a doctoral dissertation to the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, examines the appropriateness and effectiveness of using arbitration for ensuring compliance with EU competition law commitments. It analyzes the appropriateness of this method in light of the relationship between EU competition law and arbitration, as well as the distinguishing features of commitment related arbitrations. It departs from the literature on the effectiveness of these arbitrations that prevalently focuses on the drafting of the relevant clauses, and reveals the reasons for the scarcity of commitment related arbitration cases by comparing this mechanism with other monitoring and enforcement mechanisms, and looking into the relationships between all the actors involved in the acceptance, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of commitments.