mw. dr. K.J. (Kati) Cseres

Katalin Cseres obtained her university degree in law (1999, cum laude) at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary.

In 2004, she obtained her Ph.D. title from the University of Utrecht. Her Ph.D. thesis deals with the topic 'Competition Law and Consumer Protection'. She is an Associate Professor of law at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG).  She is the academic coordinator for the Master programme ' European Competition Law and Regulation', as well as a fellow of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE). She is the chairwoman of the Program Committee for the English language Masters.

She also acts as Non-governmental adviser to the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM).

Kati's current research focuses on the question of how EU law supports consumers in public services markets. In her research she investigates the legal framework in EU Directives and new EU legislative proposals (for example, postal services, energy, telecommunications)  that define consumers' role in market regulation and have a bearing on the different types of consumers i.e. the definition and normative concept (average-vulnerable) of the consumer.  How does EU law conceptualize the relationship between universal service provisions and consumer provisions? How should the provisions on user protection respond to technical developments such as the digitalization of public services? What is the role of national regulatory authorities concerning consumers’ legal position? How should this institutional framework respond to the technological developments? How can consumer responsibility (in EU law) be conceptualized in a way that explains the role of consumers in achieving public policy goals such as sustainability or competitiveness of markets.

Kati continues to investigate the role of consumers in EU competition law focusing on effective judicial protection of consumers in public and private competition law enforcement and their institutional design. She is working on this theme now within the Re-Jus project.

She is also investigating how the rule of law crisis in specific EU Member States influence the legal and institutional strcuture of  (EU) competition law enforcement  and market regulation for example, in the energy sector.

Key Publications

O.Brook, Cseres, K. J. (2019). Member States’ Interest in the Enforcement of EU Competition Law. In: Varju, M, (ed.) Between Compliance and Particularism: Member State Interests and European Union Law. International, Foreign & Comparative Law . Springer , pp. 147-170. ISBN 978-3-030-05782-4

Cseres, K. J. (2018). The active energy consumer in EU law. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 9(1).

Cseres, K. J. (2017). Universal Service and Consumer Protection: a paradigm shift in EU law. European Competition and Regulatory Law Review, 4, 1-18.

K.J. Cseres (2017). Rule of law values in the decentralized public enforcement of EU competition law In: The Enforcement of EU Law and Values: Ensuring Member States’ Compliance, Jakab, A. Kochenov, D. (eds.), Oxford University Press, pp.182-199.

 K.J. Cseres (2017). Consumer protection in: Amtenbrink, F. Curtin, D. de Witte, B. Kuijper, P.J. McDonnell, A. Van den Bogaert, S. (eds.) The Law of the European Union and the European Communities: Kapteyn-Verloren Van Themaat, 2018.

K.J. Cseres, Outhuisje, A. (2017) Parallel enforcement and accountability: the case of EU competition law, in: M. Scholten and M. Luchtman (eds.), Law Enforcement by EU Authorities. Political and judicial accountability in a shared legal order, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Cseres, K.J.  & J. Mendes (2014). Consumers’ access to EU competition law procedures: outer and inner limits. Common Market Law Review, 51 (2), 483-521. [go to publisher's site]

Cseres, K.J. (2014). Accession to the EU’s Competition Law Regime: A Law and Governance Approach. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 7 (9), 31-66.

Cseres, K.J. and Balogh, V. (2013), ‘Institutional Design in Hungary: A Case Study of the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’, Journal of Consumer Policy 361, pp. 343-365.

Cseres, K.J. (2010), ‘Comparing laws in the enforcement of EU competition law’, European Journal of Legal Studies 3(1), pp. 7-44.

Cseres, K.J. (2010), ‘The impact of Regulation 1/2003 in the New Member States’, Competition Law Review 6(2), pp. 77-121.

Cseres, K.J. (2008), ‘What has competition done for consumers in liberalised markets?’, Competition Law Review 4(2), pp. 77-121.

Cseres, K.J. (2007), ‘The controversies of the consumer welfare standard’, Competition Law Review 3(2), pp. 121-173.

Cseres, K.J. (2007), ‘Multijurisdictional competition law enforcement: the interface between European competition law and the competition laws of the new Member States’, European Competition Journal, 3(2), pp. 465-502.

Books

Criminalization Of Competition Law Enforcement (2006)

Competition Law and Consumer Protection (2005)

Teaching

Master Programme "European Competition Law and Regulation"

European Competition Law, MA

Advanced EU  Competition Law, MA

European Competition Law Moot Court, MA

Foundations of EU Competition law, MA