Harmonising EU competition litigation : the new directive and beyond / edited by Maria Bergström, Marios Iacovides and Magnus Strand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bergström, Maria, 1969- editor.

Iacovides, Marios C., editor.

Strand, Magnus, editor.

Series:

Swedish studies in European law ; Volume 8.

Swedish studies in European law ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Parliament. 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--Congresses.

European Parliament.

Antitrust law--European Union countries--Congresses.

Antitrust law.

Damages--European Union countries--Congresses.

Damages.

International and municipal law--European Union countries--Congresses.

International and municipal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, OR : Hart Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction to the directive on competition damages actions

Ulf Bernitz

Private enforcement of EU competition law : a comparison with, and lessons from, the US

Alison Jones

Welfare-enhancing effects of private enforcement : a practical approach and the Swedish perspective

Lars Henriksson

Challenges for Swedish courts : will the new directive on competition damages actions help?

Ingeborg Simonsson

The damages directive and other enforcement measures in EU competition law

Vladimir Bastidas

Embedding procedural autonomy : the directive and national procedural rules

Pieter van Cleynenbreugel

Private enforcement of competition law in intellectual property cases

Paul Torremans

Transparency and liability in leniency programmes: a question of balancing?

Xavier Groussot and Justin Pierce

Access to documents for cartel victims and cartel members : is the system coherent?

Björn Lundqvist and Helene Andersson

Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Portugal

Sofia Oliveira Pais

Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Poland

Anna Piszcz

Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Finland : causal links, the principle of effectiveness and requirements for national solutions

Katri Havu

Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Greece and the Netherlands

Agis Karpetas

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

Beyond the competition damages directive : what room for competition law restitution?

Magnus Strand

The presumption of harm and its quantification in the directive and the practical guide

Marios Iacovides.

Notes:

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 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 bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

European Parliament. 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.

ISBN:

9781509902767

1509902767

9781509902743

1509902740

OCLC:

932094397