Rein Wesseling is a practising lawyer with the law firm De Brauw,Blackstone Westbroek in Amsterdam.

• Part 1 The development of the current system of EC antitrust law enforcement: the transformation of Community Antitrust Law - enforcement, introduction, conclusion; the transformation of the Community's constitution - from international treaty to constitutional charter, from negative to positive integration, beyond the internal market, conclusion. Part 2 The modernisation of EC antitrust law in light of the general development of EC law: objectives of EC antitrust law - introduction, critique of EC Antitrust law objectives, analysis of the criticism of EC antitrust policy objectives, modernisation of EC antitrust policy objectives, conclusion; the division of jurisdiction between EC and member state antitrust laws - introduction, the relationship between Articles 81 and 82 EC and national antitrust law, mergers, the modernisation of community antitrust law jurisdiction, conclusion; institutional issues at the central level - introduction, EC antitrust legislation, enforcement procedure, evaluation of the present system, independent agency, the modernisation of the institutional framework, conclusion; institutional issues at the central level - introduction, current framework, the first attempt to decentralise - the Commission notices, more radical reform - the White Paper on Modernisation, modernisation of co-operation between the Commission and national institutions, conclusion.

Wesselings book provides timley food for thought. Wesseling has a more radical vision of modernisation than the Commission and he has produced an excellent, thought-provoking and stimulating book. Brenda Sufrin International and Comparative Law Quarterly December 2000