Compensation for damages caused by the breach of Article 81 of the Treaty establishing the European Community

99 Resumé The purpose of this work is to provide its readers with comprehensive legal analysis of possibilities and limits of practical enforcement of the European Communities' (the "EC") antitrust rules through the damage actions for infringement of Article 81 of the Treaty Establishing the European Community (the "Treaty"). The work should, in broader context, contribute to the current discussion about the implementation and future development of so-called private enforcement of EC competition rules. Given the complexity of its subject-matter, the work was structured into several chapters, which are logically linked to each other. At the outset, the elementary characteristics of the collusive practices falling within the prohibition of Article 81 of the Treaty were briefly analyzed. The main purpose of such analysis was to draw attention to certain issues, which may arise in connection with attempts to define the prohibited conduct under Article 81 of the Treaty. The core part of the work deals with practical enforcement of EC competition rules through actions for compensation of damage caused by breach of Article 81 of the Treaty. It was disputable for a long time, whether the European competition law enables the aggrieved parties to lodge such claims for compensation of damage without any specific legal..