Book review of Ida Wendt, EU Competition Law and Liberal Professions: an Uneasy Relationship? Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012

This review finds this book timely, if only because it highlights the law-making mechanisms that underlie the relevant legislation and jurisprudence. It places the book in the wider context of European integration and suggests further avenues for research

Energy Efficiency

Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU provides for an EU-wide energy efficiency target with non-binding minimum energy efficiency contributions for Member States. Next to the Energy Efficiency Directive, the EU has set specific energy efficiency standards for certain products and goods, such as buildings, electrical appliances and tyres. These EU acts envisage market-based mechanisms to ensure cost-effective implementation and contain a methodology for determining cost-effective investments in energy efficiency. They shape solidarity by taking into account the higher costs of increasing energy efficiency for those Member States where the level of energy efficiency is already relatively high. Concrete measures mostly focus on the energy efficiency of buildings, since these account for a large percentage of energy use. The effectiveness of the energy efficiency measures can be doubted, for instance due to the non-binding nature of the national energy efficiency contributions and the EU's poor track record for increasing energy efficiency.<br/

No Patient or Illness to be Treated?:The Hazards of Investigations Carried Out nder Article 102 TFEU for Price-Related Conduct (The Netherlands, Case 7069, AstraZeneca)

This article discusses the decision of the netherlands competition authority in the AstraZeneca case and puts this in a broader perspective of regulation in the pharmaceutical market, price regulation and responses to market failures

Foreword

This foreword concerns a special issue of Concurrences on competition and sustainabilit