1st Edition
Agriculture, Sustainability and Competition Law Policy Paradigms and Their Legal Implications
PART I: Introduction
1. Starting point
2. Methodology
3. Structure
4. Delimitation
5. Doctrinal fundamentals
PART II: The Clash Between Agricultural and Competition Policy
6. The agricultural sector from the viewpoint of competition policy
7. Competition from the viewpoint of agricultural policy
8. The winner of the clash
PART III: Sustainability in Agricultural and Competition Policy
9. Some clarifications on sustainability and sustainable development
10. Sustainability in agricultural policy
11. Sustainability in competition policy
PART IV: Competition Rules Applying to Agri-Food Markets and to Sustainability Agreements of Agri-Food Market Players
12. Antitrust and the agricultural sector
13. Antitrust, sustainability and the agricultural sector
14. Beyond antitrust
15. Comparison between EU and US law
PART V: Agricultural Policy Paradigms on Competition and Sustainability
16. The prevailing neoliberal paradigm
17. Food sovereignty as the contesting paradigm
18. The compatibility of agricultural policy paradigms with competition policy schools of thought
19. Agriculture from an ordoliberal viewpoint
PART VI: Finale
20. General conclusions
21. Conceptualising food sovereignty with ordoliberalism
22. Regulating competition in light of the food sovereignty paradigm
Biography
Martin Milán Csirszki serves as Head of Unit at the Hungarian Competition Authority. Before joining the national competition agency, he worked as a researcher at the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law. Besides his enforcement work, he is Adjunct Lecturer at the Budapest-based Ludovika University of Public Service, where he teaches courses on competition law and compliance. He completed his legal and PhD studies at the University of Miskolc, Hungary.
In an area of vivid interaction between the EU and the national and regional levels, Martin Milán Csirszki provides a sharp analysis of the sustainability goal in the interface between agricultural law and competition law. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in EU and comparative economic law.
Bert Keirsbilck, Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium
Csirszki’s highly reflective, comparative, and comprehensive study on agricultural and competition policy objectives in a sustainable development setting is worth reading. Challenging a ‘more-economic approach’, this book suggests a novel food sovereignty-based take on agri-food cases and markets where agricultural objectives inform the application of antitrust law. Agriculture, Sustainability and Competition Law: Policy Paradigms and Their Legal Implications will inform the sustainable agriculture regulatory policy debate for years to come.
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Professor, University of Bergen, Norway
