European Union’s Trade Defence Modernisation Package

Patricia Trapp studied law at the University of Passau, where she specialized in EU law. During her studies, she was awarded scholarships both by the Max Weber Program of the State of Bavaria and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. For two years, she was a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Christoph Herrmann, LL.M. (London), who holds the Chair for Constitutional, Administrative, European, European and International Economic Law at the University of Passau. As part of her doctoral studies, which were also funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, she spent two months working in the cabinet of the United Kingdom's judge at the EU General Court in Luxemburg, Sir Ian Forrester. Patricia has published articles in a number of journals and has presented at conferences on aspects of EU competition and trade law.

• - 1. Introduction. - 2. Competition and Commercial Policy in the European Treaties. - 3. The Legal Framework Governing EU Competition and Trade Defence Law. - 4. The Objectives of EU Competition Law and Trade Defence Law. - 5. Terminological Overlaps and Conceptual Differences in the Concepts Used in EU Competition and Trade Defence Law. - 6. The Impact of the Trade Defence Modernisation Package on the Relationship Between the EU’s Trade Defence Instruments and Competition: Anti-competitive Effects of Trade Defence Proceedings. - 7. The Impact of the Trade Defence Modernisation Package on the Relationship Between the EU’s Trade Defence Instruments and Competition: Identifying the Protectionist Bias. - 8. The EU’s Modernised Trade Defence Instruments: Promoting Sustainable Development in the EU’s Trade Relations?. - 9. Compatibility of the Reformed Basic Regulations with WTO Law. - 10. Conclusions.