Competition law, comparative private enforcement and collective redress across the EU
By: edited by Barry Rodger
Series: International competition law series -- volume 56; International competition law series -- v. 56.
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9789041145598
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Antitrust law; Class actions (Civil procedure)
Description: This book presents and evaluates the results of an AHRC funded research project designed to generate a quantitative analysis of the extent to which private enforcement of competition law has taken place across twenty-seven EU Member States over a period of 13 years to 1 May 2012 in order to consider the extent to which the rights provided by competition law in the EU are protected and accorded effectiveness. It fills a major gap in our knowledge of the use of private litigation in Europe, especially in relation to consumer redress in competition-related cases, providing valuable empirical evidence to inform policy debate and developments. Based on extensive work by expert rapporteurs from 27 EU Member States, the study comprehensively identifies, for the period 19992012, all competition law cases before the domestic courts of the EU where parties were seeking to exercise rights conferred on them either by EU law (Articles 101 and 102 TFEU) or the domestic competition law equivalents. The general hypothesis that underlies the project is that private enforcement practice may at least partly be explained by the existence or availability of particular institutions, mechanisms and cultural factors in relation to the particular legal system, and, accordingly, the book provides an overview of certain aspects of the legal and institutional background to private enforcement across the Member states.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Private enforcement context and project background  -- Barry Rodger; title: Institutions and mechanisms to facilitate private enforcement  -- Barry Rodger; title: The empirical data part 1 : methodology, case-law, courts and processes  -- Barry Rodger; title: The empirical data part 2 : provisions relied upon, remedies and success  -- Barry Rodger; title: Collective redress mechanisms and consumer case-law  -- Barry Rodger; title: Comparing economic incentives across EU member states  -- Morten Hviid & John Peysner; title: A view from across the Atlantic : recent developments in the case-law of the US federal courts on class certification in antitrust cases  -- Arianna Andreangeli; title: Fast, effective and low cost redress : how do public and private enforcement and ADR compare?  -- Christopher Hodges; title: Concluding remarks -- Barry Rodger.