The European Commission’s Package on Private Enforcement in Competition Cases: Introduction to a CPI Antitrust Chronicle

Andreas Reindl, Aug 12, 2013

Finally—it has arrived. After roughly a decade of intense and sometimes contentious policy debate, reflection, studies, and consultations on private actions for damages in competition matters, just before the summer break the Commission published a package of measures that is designed to facilitate and, to some extent, harmonize private enforcement of EU competition law across the European Union (the “Package”). At the core of the Package is the draft D