Harmonising EU competition litigation
Subtitle: the new directive and beyond
By: edited by Maria Bergström, Marios Iacovides and Magnus Strand
Contributors: European Parliament
Series: Swedish studies in European law -- volume 8
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781849467629
Subjects: Congresses; European Parliament; International and municipal law; Damages; Antitrust law
Description: This volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series, produced by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, heralds the new harmonised regime of private enforcement of EU competition law. In 2013, the Commission issued a Communication and Practical Guide to the quantification of harm in antitrust litigation and a Recommendation on collective redress. In 2014, the long-awaited Directive on actions for damages for infringements of EU competition law was finally adopted. In 2016, the Commission is expected to issue guidelines on the passing-on of overcharges. This book examines these recent developments and offers the perspectives of judges, officials, practitioners and academics. With a preface by Judge Carl Wetter of the General Court, the book explores five different themes. In section one, the main policy issues and challenges are presented. In section two, the new regime is placed in the bigger picture of recent EU law developments. In section three, the nexus between private enforcement and transparency is investigated. A comparative perspective is offered in section four by looking into private enforcement in five Member State jurisdictions. Finally, issues relating to causation, harm and indirect purchasers are explored in section five
Notes: Includes text 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, [2014] OJ L 349/1."

Includes papers presented as a conference "EU Competition Law and the Emerging Harmonization of Private Enforcement : The Upcoming Directive and Beyond" sponsored by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies in cooperation with the Law Department at Uppsala University, in Uppsala on 17 May 2014.--ECIP preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the directive on competition damages actions / Ulf Bernitz; title: Private enforcement of EU competition law : a comparison with, and lessons from, the US / Alison Jones; title: Welfare-enhancing effects of private enforcement : a practical approach and the Swedish perspective / Lars Henriksson; title: Challenges for Swedish courts : will the new directive on competition damages actions help? / Ingeborg Simonsson; title: The damages directive and other enforcement measures in EU competition law / Vladimir Bastidas; title: Embedding procedural autonomy : the directive and national procedural rules / Pieter van Cleynenbreugel; title: Private enforcement of competition law in intellectual property cases / Paul Torremans; title: Transparency and liability in leniency programmes: a question of balancing? / Xavier Groussot and Justin Pierce; title: Access to documents for cartel victims and cartel members : is the system coherent? / Björn Lundqvist and Helene Andersson; title: Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Portugal / Sofia Oliveira Pais; title: Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Poland / Anna Piszcz; title: Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Finland : causal links, the principle of effectiveness and requirements for national solutions / Katri Havu; title: Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Greece and the Netherlands / Agis Karpetas; title: Indirect purchasers : is there anything new in the directive? an introductory overview of the current and future status of indirect purchasers in the EU / Elisabeth Eklund; title: Beyond the competition damages directive : what room for competition law restitution? / Magnus Strand; title: The presumption of harm and its quantification in the directive and the practical guide / Marios Iacovides.