Private enforcement of EU Competition Law

Private enforcement of EU Competition Law Abstract The topic of this Juris Doctor thesis deals with private enforcement of competition law, which is commonly understood as the possibility of seeking damages caused by anticompetitive behavior of undertakings before the courts of EU member states. The author describes the development of the right to seek the antitrust damages in the first part of his thesis. This deep analysis involves an exhaustive presentation of key decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union, accompanied by the analysis of the preparatory work on the Directive 2014/104/EU. The latter includes synthesis of numerous comments drafted and issued by member states, national competition authorities and other stakeholders as well. Following the first part described above, the author carefully examines the whole text of adopted Directive 2014/104/EU and describes its transposition. There was created a new fully recognized branch of competition law within the EU, which doesn't replace or threaten both the EC and NCA public enforcement of competition law. Moreover, these private antitrust damages actions serve as a complement of a public-law sanction. The European private damages directive establishes certain new procedures and law institutes, all of which are thoroughly analyzed and..