"CONNECTOR - CompetitiOn law coNnects challeNges in digital markEts, intelleCtual properTy and air transpORt" is a natural extension of LIBRe Foundation’s previous efforts in organising trainings for national judges on EU Competition Law topics.
CONNECTOR benefits from the accumulated expertise and knowledge of LIBRe Foundation’s team and complements the activities carried out in previous projects and initiatives by extending further the interactive collaboration tools built within the framework of these projects, e.g. the online platform built within the CONSTANT project (10/2016 – 08/2017).
CONNECTOR is a 10-month project financially supported by the European Commission, DG Competition, via the Training of National Judges in EU Competition Law Programme, with the aim to provide national judges with the necessary knowledge and skills to apply and enforce competition rules and principles in the context of specific markets, highly driven by innovation, technological advancement and the flow of data.
CONNECTOR will provide judges with knowledge about the economic and technological characteristics of three separate markets:
the market of online platforms
the digital content market and
the airline industry
CONNECTOR groups these three seemingly disparate sectors in accordance with their commonalities, namely their underscored international nature, the high influence of innovation and rapid technological developments and the use of big data.
The project will strengthen the capacity of the Bulgarian judiciary in the enforcement of EU competition rules regarding antitrust violations, abuses of dominant positions and the control of concentrations between undertakings in the new and advanced terms of the digital society.
During the run of CONNECTOR, three educational events, relying on novel educational methods and an interactive educational process will be conducted.
The long-term aim of the project is to create a healthy environment for the establishment of professional relations between judges, which will enable them to share knowledge, experience, interpretative strategies and opinions on matters related to EU Competition Law.
These projects are implemented with the financial support of the Training of National Judges Programme of the European Union under Grant Agreement No. SI2.738369-HT.4989, 2016-2017, and Grant Agreement No. SI2.763330-HT.5232, 2017-2018.