Case C-267/20: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 June 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial — León — Spain) — AB Volvo, DAF TRUCKS NV v RM (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Article 101 TFEU — Directive 2014/104/EU — Articles 10, 17 and 22 — Actions for damages for infringements of the provisions of EU competition law — Limitation period — Rebuttable presumption of harm — Quantification of harm suffered — Belated transposition of the directive — Temporal application — Substantive and procedural provisions)
Date: 2022-06-22
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: cartel, civil liability proceedings, competition law, damages, limitation of legal proceedings, national law, retroactivity of a law








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8.8.2022   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 303/2






Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 22 June 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Audiencia Provincial — León — Spain) — AB Volvo, DAF TRUCKS NV v RM
(Case C-267/20) (1)

(Reference for a preliminary ruling - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Article 101 TFEU - Directive 2014/104/EU - Articles 10, 17 and 22 - Actions for damages for infringements of the provisions of EU competition law - Limitation period - Rebuttable presumption of harm - Quantification of harm suffered - Belated transposition of the directive - Temporal application - Substantive and procedural provisions)
(2022/C 303/02)
Language of the case: Spanish

Referring court

Audiencia Provincial — León

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: AB Volvo, DAF TRUCKS NV

Defendant: RM

Operative part of the judgment

Article 10 of Directive 2014/104/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2014 on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union must be interpreted as constituting a substantive provision, within the meaning of Article 22(1) of that directive, and as meaning that an action for damages which, although relating to an infringement of competition law which ceased before the entry into force of that directive, was brought after the entry into force of the provisions transposing it into national law falls within its temporal scope, in so far as the time limit for transposition applicable to that action under the old rules did not expire before the time limit for transposition of the same directive.
Article 17(1) of Directive 2014/104 must be interpreted as constituting a procedural provision, within the meaning of Article 22(2) of that directive, and as meaning that an action for damages which, although relating to an infringement of competition law which ceased before the entry into force of that directive, was brought after 26 December 2014 and after the entry into force of the provisions transposing it into national law falls within its temporal scope.
Article 17(2) of Directive 2014/104 must be interpreted as constituting a substantive provision, within the meaning of Article 22(1) of that directive, and as meaning that an action for damages which, although brought after the entry into force of the provisions transposing belatedly that directive into national law, pertains to an infringement of competition law which ceased before the expiry of the time limit for transposing it does not fall within its temporal scope.


(1)  OJ C 320, 28.9.2020.