NAME: David FreedmanCOMPANY: Foster’s Group LimitedTITLE: Vice President Legal AffairsAGE: 37PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Senior Associate in the Corporate Advisory Group at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, where he worked for over six years

As you read this, European antitrust enforcement is going ‘networked’. This process has acquired the sobriquet ‘modernisation’. On the eve of the momentous switch we put a series of questions to Paulis. Then in the pages that follow we find out what some of our readers make of his reply. By DAVID SAMUELS

After interviewing Emil Paulis, editor DAVID SAMUELS asked a group of in-house counsel and private practitioners what they thought of his responses

The European Commission’s decision on Microsoft sets an important precedent for software platform competition. ANTOINE WINCKLER, MAURITS DOLMANS and THOMAS GRAF of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Brussels, report

THOMAS MUELLER of Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP investigates the possibility of losing immunity in a cartel investigation, following the revocation of Stolt-Nielson’s immunity in the shipping cartel case

The revised Competition Act entered into force on 1 April 2004. DANIEL HUFSCHMID of Lenz & Staehelin, Zurich, reports

On 1 May, Poland will join the European Union. PHILIPPA WARD looks at how the regime that enforces competition in the largest eastern European economy is managing the changes

Dr Cezary Banasinski, Chairman of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, talks to PHILIPPA WARD about the changing role of the authority in light of Poland’s forthcoming accession to the EU

Portugal set up its first politically independent and properly funded competition authority in March last year. PHILIPPA WARD reports from Lisbon on concerns that the original vision might be being watered down.

Professor Mateus became the first head of the new Portuguese Competition Authority last March. PHILIPPA WARD went to Lisbon to hear his thoughts on how the new regime is doing.

Professor Mateus became the first head of the new Portuguese Competition Authority last March. PHILIPPA WARD went to Lisbon to hear his thoughts on how the new regime is doing.

Portugal is a market with few international and foreign firms and its own competition specialists. PHILIPPA WARD looks at the various tiers of the market and what the future holds

Verizon Communications v Law Offices of Curtis Trinko is being described as the most important US Supreme Court decision on antitrust for 20 years. The following is a virtual roundtable on what the Supreme Court said, and how it may be interpreted by lower courts. Contributions compiled by DAVID SAMUELS

By JAMES VENIT, partner, and FREDERIC DEPOORTERE, senior associate, of the Brussels office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

KATE NEWMAN and DAVE PODDAR* of Mallesons Stephen Jaques report on the continuing problems facing the proposed strategic alliance between Australasia’s two flagship airlines