Institutional Challenges for Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Central and Eastern European Member States of the EU

• Authors: Blazo Ondrej
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper will focus on requirements and thresholds set for the judiciary by the Damages Directive. Answered will also be questions on the specialization of courts and its application in Central and Eastern European (CEE) Member States of the EU, as well as on the involvement of national competition authorities (NCAs) in court proceedings. The paper provides also general thoughts regarding the specialization of courts and confronts them with the judiciary structure in CEE Member States in the context of private enforcement of competition law. While there is no uniform model of a judicial system, the paper provides a critical analysis of the centralization, specialization and decentralization of private enforcement models, taking into account also the importance of the training of judges. The relationship between NCAs and courts will be discussed whereby the role of NCAs in private enforcement defines the responsibility of the given public authority in private enforcement as a country’s policymaker.

Keywords

EN

judicial system; judicial specialization; competition law; damages; harmonization; EU law

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 10(15)
• Pages: 31-48

Dates

published

2017-06-30

Contributors

author

Blazo Ondrej

• JUDr. Ing., PhD., Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Law, Institute of European Law

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Identifiers

ISSN

1689-9024

DOI

10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2017.10.15.2