Sven Norberg has, inter alia, served as Director of the Legal Affairs department at the EFTA

Secretariat, as Judge of the EFTA Court and as Director at the DG Competition in the

European Commission.

He was instrumental to the successful conclusion of the EEA Agreement, being in charge

of a team of lawyers servicing the different EFTA negotiating groups preparing the

Agreement, with particular responsibility for the Negotiating Group on Legal and

Institutional Questions. During his time at DG Competition he played a central role in the

preparation and drafting of the new Regulation 1/2003 on the implementation of the rules

on competition laid down in Articles 81 and 82 EC. Juris Doctor Honoris causa at the

Faculty of Law at Stockholm University, he has also been actively involved in establishing

and running the Master of European Affairs Programme at Lund University and is coauthor

of several books and author of numerous articles on Community and EEA law.

In this Liber Amicorum, friends and colleagues pay tribute to Sven Norberg at the occasion

of his retirement from the DG Competition in December 2005. The book contains articles

by a number of prominent authors, including present and formers members of the

European and national judiciaries, members of the services of other EU institutions and of

the EFTA Secretariat, academics from different European universities as well as practitioners

from government services and from leading European law firms. The contributions

focus mainly on EU competition law and on EEA Law, but also other parts of EU, international

and national law are dealt with.