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Private antitrust law enforcement

 

"Private antitrust law enforcement" comprises all applications of antitrust rules both defensively as objection to claims for payment, delivery or other contractual claims and offensively as motivation of a claim. National and international legislators, competition authorities and courts have in the recent past increasingly required and partially implemented actions to enable and facilitate the private enforcement of antitrust law.

EU-Commissioner Neelie Kroes (DG Competition) summarises the main idea as follows (speech dated 17/10/2005, Cour de Cassation, Paris):

"The first advantage of private enforcement is direct justice, which allows the victims of illegal anticompetitive behaviour to be compensated for the loss they have suffered."

CDC accomodates the changing framework and commits to successful claims enforcement.

Further information on the legal basis of CDC's activities and private enforcement of antitrust law in general can be found on the following pages.

 

 

EU White Paper on Damages Actions

Comments on the European Commission's White Paper on Damages actions for breach of EC antitrust rules (more ...)

Presentation of Dr. Till Schreiber at the Conférence du Jeune Barreau, Brussels, 12 February 2009, "Will the proposals of the European Commission in its White Paper on Damages actions for breach of EC antitrust rules facilitate private damage claims?" (more ...)

 

Links and articles:

„Actions for damages“, Website of the European Commission – Directorate General for Competition – on private enforcement of antitrust law

The American Lawyer, "A Private Affair", Focus Europe Supplement, Summer 2007, p. 7 et seq.

The Antitrust Review of the Americas 2007, Litigation Culture versus enforcement culture - A comparison of  US and EU plaintiff recovery actions in antitrust cases, p. 38 et seqq.

 

 

 

The following remarks merely serve the purpose to illustrate and explain the legal basis of CDC’s activities. This is no legal advice. CDC excludes explicitly any liability for the correctness of the following remarks and legal views expressed by CDC.

 

 

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