2023/24
27733 - Competition Law
Optional
1. General information
The purpose of the Competition Law subject is for students to review and deepen their knowledge of the provisions regulating competition in its various aspects: free competition, unfair competition and industrial and intellectual property, while assimilating the importance of these aspects which transcend the interests of companies and is projected on the interests of consumers and the economy in general.
These approaches and objectives are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030 (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/es/), specifically, the learning activities planned in this subject will contribute to the achievement of Objective 9.5 of Goal 9, and 8.2 of Goal 8.
3. Syllabus
Unit 1. The defence of free competition.
Topic 2. Repression of unfair competition.
Topic 3. Exclusive rights derived from industrial and intellectual property as instruments of competition and as exceptions to free competition.
4. Academic activities
Lectures: sessions with the teacher in which the subject syllabus will be explained. 12 hours Problems and cases: sessions to solve practical cases presented by the teacher 18 hours Subject study; class preparation; practical activities: 43.5 hours
Assessment tests. 1.5 hours
5. Assessment system
They will consist of:
I. -Mixed system, which is composed of the following evaluation activities:
a. -Evaluation of activities developed during the course, which will be based on the grade of between 2 and 5 learning activities.
-. The overall result of these will be weighted by 30 % in the final grade. Partial grades will be provided to the student.
The grade obtained in the assessment of the activities developed during the term is kept for the second call of the subject, provided it has been obtained within the same enrolment call of the subject.
b. -Final written test, which will consist of the resolution of a practical case. The final written test constitutes 70% of the final grade.
Students who do not obtain in this final written test a minimum grade of 4 out of 10 points will not pass the subject. Only on the basis of this grade will it be weighted with the grade of the evaluation of the activities developed during the term.
II. -Simple system, based exclusively on a global final test consisting of two parts:
a. the completion of the same final written test of the mixed system consisting of the resolution of a practical case and
b. -the completion of an additional written exercise consisting of a questionnaire with several questions on the content of the subject
The final grade of the overall test will be obtained from the weighted average of the grades of the final test, 70%, and of the above mentioned exercise, 30% being necessary that the result of the weighted average is 5.0 points or higher
Notwithstanding the above, students will not pass the subject if they do not achieve a minimum grade of 4 out of 10 points in the total of the final test of the mixed system , as well as a minimum grade of 5 out of 10 in the additional written exercise of item b) of this section.