Provisions of the damages directive on limitation periods and their implementation in CEE countries

Vlahek, Ana (author), Podobnik, Klemen (author)

The article analyses the provisions on limitation of antitrust damages actions set out in Directive 2014/104/EU on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union. It presents (draft) implementing legislation of CEE countries from the perspective of their general rules on limitation, and the problems the Member States have faced in the process of transposing the Directive into their national legal systems. Within that, focus is placed upon the analysis of the types of limitation periods, their length and their suspension or interruption. In addition, the authors present the effects of the new limitation regime on the balance between the interests of the claimants and of the defendants, as well as on the relation between public and private antitrust enforcement.

• Language: English
• Keywords: limitation of antitrust damages claims, limitation, limitation periods, suspension of limitation, interruption of limitation, competition law, antitrust, Directive 2014/104/EU, CEE countries, private enforcement of antitrust, liability for damages
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PF - Faculty of Law
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2017
• Number of pages: Str. 147-175
• Numbering: Vol. 10, no. 15
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-140552
• UDC: 347
• ISSN on article: 1689-9024
• DOI: 10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2017.10.15.8
• COBISS.SI-ID: 15910737

Note

KLJUČNE BESEDE: odškodninsko pravo, konkurenčno pravo, direktive, odškodnine, Evropska unija, države članice, odškodninske tožbe, monopol

• Publication date in RUL: 15.09.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Yearbook of antitrust and regulatory studies
• Shortened title: Yearb. antitrust regul. stud.
• Publisher: Centre for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management = Centrum Studiów Antymonopolowych i Regulacyjnych, Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• ISSN: 1689-9024
• COBISS.SI-ID: 4662059

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Secondary language

• Language: French

Abstract

L’article analyse les dispositions relatives à la limitation des actions en dommages prévues par la directive 2014/104/UE relative à certaines règles régissant les actions en dommages et intérêts en droit national pour les infractions aux dispositions du droit de la concurrence des États membres et de l’Union européenne. Il présente (un projet) la législation de mise en œuvre des pays d’Europe centrale et orientale du point de vue de leurs règles générales en matière de limitation, et les problèmes rencontrés par les États membres dans le processus de transposition de la Directive dans leurs systèmes juridiques nationaux. Dans ce cadre, l’accent est mis sur l’analyse des types de délais de prescription, de leur durée et de leur suspension ou interruption. En outre, les auteurs présentent les effets du nouveau régime de limitation sur l’équilibre entre les intérêts des demandeurs et des défendeurs, ainsi que sur la relation entre l’application publique et privée du droit de la concurrence.