Dr. Robert Klotz, Belgium

Basic Principles of Access Control and Grid Charge Price Regulation – Procedure in Cases of Abusive Practices (Module 6)

Robert Klotz is partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice Group in the Brussels office of of Steptoe LLP, which he joined in 2024. Previously he worked in various other international law firms in Brussels. From 1998 to 2007 he was an EU official within DG Competition of the European Commission, dealing with high level antitrust cases in regulated industries, such as telecommunications and energy. In his current role as private practitioner, he advises a wide range of international clients on all aspects of EU and German competition and regulatory law, also representing them before the European Commission and national authorities, with a particular focus on network industries, such as energy, telecommunications, post and transport. In addition, he is a frequent speaker at public events, academic lecturer in several German universities, co-editor and co-author of a standard competition law treatise (Schröter/Klotz/von Wendland, ed. NOMOS) and managing editor of a quarterly competition law review (CoRe, ed. Lexxion). He has been acknowledged as a leading lawyer for competition law by “Who's Who Legal”, JUVE, Legal 500 Europe, and Chambers Global for several years.