CELEX: 62017CA0637
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-28 00:00:00
Title: Case C-637/17: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 28 March 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Judicial da Comarca de Lisboa — Portugal) — Cogeco Communications Inc. v Sport TV Portugal SA, Controlinveste-SGPS SA, NOS-SGPS SA (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 102 TFEU — Principles of equivalence and effectiveness — Directive 2014/104/EU — Article 9(1) — Article 10(2) to (4) — Articles 21 and 22 — Actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union — Effects of national decisions — Limitation periods — Transposition — Temporal application)

3.6.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 187/21
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 28 March 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Judicial da Comarca de Lisboa — Portugal) — Cogeco Communications Inc. v Sport TV Portugal SA, Controlinveste-SGPS SA, NOS-SGPS SA
      (Case C-637/17) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 102 TFEU - Principles of equivalence and effectiveness - Directive 2014/104/EU - Article 9(1) - Article 10(2) to (4) - Articles 21 and 22 - Actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union - Effects of national decisions - Limitation periods - Transposition - Temporal application)
      (2019/C 187/24)
      Language of the case: Portuguese
      
         Referring court
      
      Tribunal Judicial da Comarca de Lisboa
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Cogeco Communications Inc.
      
         Defendants: Sport TV Portugal SA, Controlinveste-SGPS SA, NOS-SGPS SA
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      
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                  Article 22 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 meaning that that directive is not applicable to the dispute in the main proceedings.
               
            
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                  Article 102 TFEU and the principle of effectiveness must be interpreted as precluding national legislation which, first, provides that the limitation period in respect of actions for damages is three years and starts to run from the date on which the injured party was aware of its right to compensation, even if unaware of the identity of the person liable and, secondly, does not include any possibility of suspending or interrupting that period during proceedings before the national competition authority.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 32, 29.1.2018.