PROGRAMME

09:00 – 09:30 Registration and morning coffee

09:30 – 09:40 Welcome remarks

• Dina Lurje, Council Member, Lithuanian Competition Council

• Rasa Zaščiurinskaitė, Head of Competition Practice Group, COBALT Lithuania
   

09:40 – 10:00 Abuse of dominance: recent EU updates

Maria Jaspers, Head of Unit, DG Competition, European Commission
 

10:00 – 11:00 Abuse of dominance: national perspectives

Chair: Pamela Hansson, Partner, Kastell, Sweden
 

Panellists:

• Kirstine Rødsgaard Madsen, Senior Economist, Copenhagen Economics, Denmark

• Louise Lundberg, Case Officer, Swedish Competition Authority

• Siri Teigum, Partner, Thommessen, Norway

• Liga Merwin, Managing Partner, Ellex Klavins, Latvia

11:00 – 11:20 Coffee/Tea break

11:20 – 12:30 E-commerce and competition law: challenges and opportunities for businesses

Chair: Aleksandra Boutin, Senior Consultant, Compass Lexecon

Panellists:

• Dr. Gintarė Surblytė-Namavičienė, Chief Advisor, Lithuanian Competition Council

• Katri Paas-Mohando, Head of Competition, TGS Baltic, Estonia

• Emma Trogen, Director Legal Affairs, Cosmetics Europe, Brussels

• Marie Östman, Chief Legal Officer, Swedish Competition Authority

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12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

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13:30 – 14:40 Joint bids and consortia: developments across the region

Chair: Ami Paanajärvi, Partner, Roschier, Finland

Panellists:

• Rasa Zaščiurinskaitė, Head of Competition Practice Group, COBALT Lithuania

• Emily O’Reilly, Deputy Director, EFTA Surveillance Authority, Brussels

• Antonio Capobianco, Senior Competition Law Expert, OECD

• Bitten Thorgaard Sørensen, Deputy Director General, Danish Competition Authority

14:40 – 15:00 Coffee break

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15:00 – 16:00 Working with the Baltic and Nordic Competition Authorities: Compliance

Chair: Kaarli H. Eichhorn, Partner, Jones Day

Panellists:

• Hanna Danwall, Head of Competition law, Carlsberg Group, Denmark

• Giedrė Kaminskaitė-Salters, General Counsel and Head of Corporate Affairs, Telia Lietuva, Lithuania

• Hanna Lekås, Senior Associate, Lindahl, Sweden

• Maria Wasastjerna, Senior Legal Counsel, Nokia, Finland

16:00 – 17:00 Roundtable of Competition Enforcers: Yearly review and trends of the region

Chair: Evelina Kurgonaitė, Founder & Chair, W@Competition, Brussels

Panellists:

• Dina Lurje, Council Member, Lithuanian Competition Council

• Skaidrīte Ābrama, Chairwoman, Latvian Competition Council

• Karin Lunning, Deputy Director General, Swedish Competition Authority

• Bitten Thorgaard Sørensen, Deputy Director General, Danish Competition Authority

• Karin Stakkestad Laastad, Legal Director, Norwegian Competition Authority

17:00 - 17:10 Closing remarks

Helen Nilsson, Director, Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania

17:10 Drinks & informal discussions

The conference is open to all interested professionals in private practice, CEOs and in-house counsel, enforcement officials and academics involved or interested in competition law, irrespective of their gender.

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​​WHEN: 3 October, 2018

WHERE: Hotel Novotel, Gedimino av. 16, 01103 Vilnius, Lithuania

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