Thinking, The Eu Liner Conference Immunity

In 2006, EU had claimed that it would cancel the exception of the liner conference, which indicates the new development of the shipping antitrust legislation. In light of the absence of the law in China, the writer is going to discuss the related matters in order to give some advice for our own legislation in the future.Chapter one briefs the general theory of the antitrust and its exception system and introduce the difficulties our country is faced in the same legislative area.Chapter two discusses the uniqueness of the shipping economy so as to provide bases for other ideas in the article.Chapter three focuses on the achievements EU and USA has got in this area and comes to the experience they have got in the proceeding, which can be very useful to us.Chapter four concentrates on the systematic theory of the antitrust exception and its limitation or conditions. This part has been attached great importance to the various agreements and behaviors in the shipping market witch is crucial to the whole antitrust legislation because it is the core to the exception system.Chapter five is going to give the main suggestion the writer have for the China's shipping antitrust legislation.