Project ‘CONSTANT - COmpetitioN and STate aid law Advanced National Training for judges’ greatly relies on the high qualification and professionalism of the lecturers leading the three trainings implemented within the project.
Therefore we are glad that we were joined by:
Ivan Georgiev - a former regional judge (2010-2016) with special interests and practical experience in competition law. Ivan is also a former member of the Association of European Competition Law Judges (2014-2016). He is currently a practising lawyer and managing partner of a law firm active in the field of competition law at national level.
Kiril Pangelov - a lawyer with more than 12 years of professional experience in the Bulgarian Competition Authority (CPC) and from 2010 to 2016 he was Director of the Competition Law and Policy Directorate at the CPC. In the period from 2013 to 2016 he was a consultant to UNCTAD in the framework of the voluntary peer review of Albania's competition law and policy. He also has professional experience in the field of regulation and supervision in the financial sector. He graduated ’Law’ at Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ in 2002. Besides, as of 2006 he holds a Master's degree in ‘Finance’ from Veliko Tarnovo University ‘St. St. Cyril and St. Methodius’, as well as a Master's degree in ‘ EU Law’ from Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ and the University of Nancy (France) as of 2008. He has specialized in competition law at the Academy of European Law in Trier (Germany) and has an internship in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition (Brussels). He is the author of numerous articles in the field of European competition law and co-author of the book ‘The new legal framework for the protection of competition’, ‘Trud i pravо’, Sofia, 2009
Miroslava Marinova – an expert with a Master’s degree in Economics and acted as a case handler at the Bulgarian Commission on Protection of Competition for ten years (2004-2014). Currently, she is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in Competition Law at the University of Reading, UK, studying the treatment of fidelity rebates and discounts in EU competition law. Her thesis’ title is: “On the usefulness of the Guidelines on the Commission's enforcement priorities in applying Article 82 of the EC Treaty [now Art. 102 TFEU] to abusive exclusionary conduct by dominant undertakings (The Guidance) to the member states, particularly as regards the practical implementation of the price-cost test in fidelity rebate cases.”
Mladen Mladenov – an expert with a Master Degrees in “Law”, “Public Finance” and “Management”. His Doctoral Degree is on Theme “Managing Conflicts. Methods of Alternative Dispute Resolutions in Tax Process (In the Context of Revenue Administration)”. He is teaching from many years in New Bulgarian University in disciplines „Financial Law” and “Legal Regime of Financial Management” as well in Institute of Public Administration in “Administrative Procedure Code”. He is former Attorney-at-Law, Regional Judge, Head of Appeals Department-Chief Legal Advisor in General Tax Directorate, State Inspector in Inspectorate in Ministry of Finance. He is currently consultant in the Public Sector with projects and trainings in Bulgaria and abroad.
Hein Hobbelen – an expert whose practice focuses on EU and Dutch competition law, telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) regulation and EU trade law. His sector experience also covers industries including electrical engineering, chemicals, financial services, glass, energy generation equipment, paper and healthcare. Mr Hobbelen is regularly involved in multijurisdictional cartel investigations and ensuing litigation. He also guides clients through complex, cross border merger transactions and has significant experience of coordinating international teams. Clients often turn to Hein for his longstanding knowledge of the TMT sector, EU cartel and merger investigations and his experience at the interface of competition law and sector regulation.
Sincere thanks to our lecturers for the support!
Get to know on which topics you may hear from them by introducing yourself with the agenda of each of the trainings.
You will also find an online Registration form on the training’s web pages which you could use for applying to be enrolled in a training of your choice. The applications made by filling in the online form will be accepted in the order of their submission until 30.05.2017.
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.