'Session 4: Competition Law' - Oke Odudu: CELS Brexit Symposium

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🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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On 14 March 2019 the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosted a symposium to discuss the potential implications of Brexit. The aim of this event was to provide informed commentary on issues within the ongoing Brexit process (whatever they may be). Programme: Session 1: Free Movement of Persons and Establishment What are the consequences of the Brexit process for the immediate and future rights of EU citizens within the UK and UK citizens travelling to or working within the EU. This would cover both the right to work, the right to be self-employed, and the rights of those not in employment. Chair: John Bell Martin Steinfeld (University of Cambridge) Eleanor Spaventa (Bocconi University, Italy) Session 2: External Relations What is the effect of the Brexit process on the UK’s ability to conclude trade agreements? What are the potential frameworks within which these might be developed? Chair: Geoffrey Edwards (POLIS) Markus Gehring (University of Cambridge) Georges Baur (Liechtenstein Institute, Formerly EFTA) Session 3: Goods and Services What is the effect of present and proposed arrangements on the free movement of goods and services? How far are the UK and EU markets to be segmented and how will this affect trading across borders, notably that in Northern Ireland? Chair: Stephen Weatherill (University of Oxford) Laurence Gormley (University of Groningen) Gareth Davies (Vrije University, Amsterdam) Session 4: Competition Law How will the substantive rules and procedures on competition law and state aids be affected by the Brexit process in the short and medium term? Chair: Albertina Albors-Llorens (University of Cambridge) Oke Odudu (University of Cambridge) Tim Ward (Monckton Chambers)

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0:00.0	Thank you very much.
0:06.1	I thought I would pick up on some of the aspects of Brexit
0:13.3	surrounding the state aid regime.
0:17.4	And what I thought I'd do was start out with government policy, which is not the ordinary place to start, but it's actually turned out to be the most important place to start.
0:31.3	And so it's just government policy, the government view, that unregulated subsidies are harmful. They are not desirable within the UK.
0:42.3	So that is government policy. And then, certainly the case, you can see here, the Secretary of State for Exist in the European Union at the time, that was David Davis,
0:59.2	he gave a Vienna speech and just says, the UK is a vocal proponent of restricting unfair
1:06.0	subsidies to ensure competitive markets. It's good for taxpayers, good for the consumers.
1:11.6	These are principles true across the globe.
1:14.6	And they're going to be, they're going to continue to be true in the UK's relationship with the UK.
1:20.6	So these are principles true across the globe.
1:23.6	So since we're not leaving the planet, these are the principles that the UK adopts.
1:29.9	And so you'd expect them to persist.
1:33.3	And it's true of the Prime Minister in the Mansion House speech,
1:37.6	that the UK has much to gain from maintaining proper discipline
1:41.5	in the use of subsidies and anti-competitive practices.
1:45.2	So that is a policy that the UK has and is able to implement that policy at the moment
1:54.2	through the EU regime.
1:57.4	So you're able to promote the UK's policy by applying the EU regime, which rests on three pillars.
2:05.3	So the state aid regime contains a general prohibition on the granting of subsidies.
2:11.6	It then provides a framework of exceptions, and it is supervised by the European Commission. But it is clear that that is
2:20.9	the UK's government policy, and the mechanism that you are able to implement that policy is through
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