The Scope of the Implementation of the Damages Directive in CEE States

• Authors: Petr Michal
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Damages Directive has a rather limited scope, focusing only on damages claims stemming from anticompetitive agreements or abuse of a dominant position, provided such conduct was able to affect trade between EU Member States. However, Member States are not limited by this scope and so they may decide, when implementing the Directive, to enhance not only claims for damages, but the overall private enforcement of competition law. In this article, we shall explore the scope of the implementing legislation of selected Central and Eastern European Countries, namely in Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Keywords

EN

competition law; Damages Directive; private antitrust enforcement; undertaking

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 10(15)
• Pages: 13-30

Dates

published

2017-06-30

printed

2017-06-30

Contributors

author

Petr Michal

• Senior researcher at Palacky University in Olomouc, Faculty of Law, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

ISSN

1689-9024

DOI

10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2017.10.15.1