The Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) joins the CompEUte project, an EU-funded initiative aimed at enhancing legal knowledge and skills of national administrative and civil judges in the application of competition law to the digital market. In Greece, the project is implemented by the Centre for European Constitutional Law (CECL) - Themistocles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation.
Besides the HCC, the project is also supported by the National School of Judiciary (NSJ).
The project involves a range of actions, such as:
- Analysis of Judges’ training needs in the field of EU competition law
- Development of an innovative training programme, aimed at providing information on competition law fundamentals and rules, development of interdisciplinary skills and familiarisation with basic economic principles and technical terminology required to understand the basic framework of competition law in the digital era
- Conducting training courses of scaling intensification, depending on the level of familiarity of the Judges involved
- Development of digital asynchronous education programmes, which can be leveraged in the future by judicial officers in collaboration with the NSJ, and
- Organisation of working visits to the Hellenic Competition Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union, as well as of an international conference in Athens that will be aimed at promoting pan-European cooperation, networking and cross-border dialogue on competition issues in the digital market.
The project was launched a few days ago, in November 2024, and will run until April 2026.
