Consumer Involvement in Private EU Competition Law Enforcement

Consumer Involvement in Private EU Competition Law Enforcement
Author: Maria Ioannidou
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015-09-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191039888

Despite the growing importance of 'consumer welfare' in EU competition law debates, there remains a significant disconnect between rhetoric and reality, as consumers and their interests still play only an ancillary role in this area of law. Consumer Involvement in Private EU Competition Law Enforcement is the first monograph to exclusively address this highly topical and much debated subject, providing a timely and wide-ranging examination of the need for more active consumer participation in competition law. Written by an expert in the field, it sets out a comprehensive framework of policy implications and arguments for greater involvement, positioning the debate in the context of a broader EU law perspective. It outlines pragmatic approaches to remedial and procedural measures that would enable consumer empowerment. Finally, the book identifies key institutional and political obstacles to the adoption of effective measures, and suggests alternative routes to enhance the role of consumers in private competition law enforcement. The book's innovative approach, combining normative analysis and practical solutions, make it invaluable for academics, policy-makers, and practitioners in the field.

Private Enforcement of European Competition and State Aid Law

Private Enforcement of European Competition and State Aid Law
Author: Ferdinand Wollenschläger
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 940350210X

Private Enforcement of European Competition and State Aid Law Current Challenges and the Way Forward Edited by: Ferdinand Wollenschläger, Wolfgang Wurmnest & Thomas M.J. Möllers The overlapping European Union (EU) regimes of competition law and State aid law both provide mechanisms allowing private plaintiffs to claim compensation for losses or damages. It is thus of significant practical value to provide, as this book does, analysis and guidance on achieving enforcement of such claims, written by renowned authorities in the two fields. The book examines the two areas of law both from an EU perspective and from the perspectives of private enforcement in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. In country reports for these major jurisdictions, as well as in more general and comparative chapters, the authors focus on such issues as the following: impediments to private enforcement; which entity is liable for damages; binding effect of decisions of competition authorities; limitation of actions; collective actions and pooling of claims; enforcement of the standstill obligation (Article 108(3) TFEU); remedies and information deficits; cooperation and coordination between national courts and the European Commission; transposition of the so-called Damages Directive (Directive 2014/104/EU) by the EU Member States; extent to which the strengthening of private enforcement of competition law has a spillover effect on State aid law; and prospects for harmonisation of State aid law. A concluding section identifies enforcement deficits and proposes ways to improve the existing legal framework. As an in-depth assessment of key obstacles and best practices in private enforcement actions, this highly informative and practical volume facilitates choice of the best forum for competition and State aid law cases. Academics and practitioners engaged with this important area of European law will appreciate the authors’ awareness of the economic need and legal particularities which could generate an effective European system of private enforcement of legitimate claims under EU competition and State aid law.

Consumer Involvement in Private EU Competition Law Enforcement

Consumer Involvement in Private EU Competition Law Enforcement
Author: Maria Ioannidou
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2015
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198726430

This book is a timely and comprehensive examination of consumer participation in EU competition law enforcement. Using in-depth analysis of recent case law and policy documents, it offers a clear and innovative framework of the subject's normative and practical aspects, and proposes necessary remedial and procedural rules to enable participation.

EU Competition Law. Optimum Enforcement Methods Against EU Cartel Participants

EU Competition Law. Optimum Enforcement Methods Against EU Cartel Participants
Author: Ronan Garvey
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 12
Release: 2020-06-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3346184250

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Law - Civil / Private / Trade / Anti Trust Law / Business Law, grade: 82.00, University College Cork, course: LLB, language: English, abstract: This paper is concerned with optimising the enforcement of European Union Competition Law against cartels participants. A critique of Directive 2014/104 and its main shortcomings will begin this paper. Investigation then launched into role of national competition authorities in the Union, arguing that enhanced member state cooperation and full transposition of draft Directive 2019/1 (ECN+) will deter cartel activity. Final point concerns individual liability against the company agents behind cartels, how corporate fines imposed by European Commission fail to deter individuals against continued cartel participation.

Collective Enforcement of Consumer Law

Collective Enforcement of Consumer Law
Author: W. H. van Boom
Publisher: ISBS
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789076871806

Recoge : 1. Collective private enforcement of consumer law. 2. Public and privatu transnational conforcemenment of EU consumer law. -- 3. Enforcement of consumers' collective interests by regulatory agencies in the Nordics countries. -- 4. The Dutcht consumer authority. -- 5. Enforcement of collective consumer interest : a competition law perspective. -- 6. Should consumer protection law be publicly enforced? An economic perspective on EC Regulation 2006/2004 and its implementattion in the consumer protection laws of the Member States. -- 7. Collectivism : evaluating the effectiveness of public and private models for regulating consumer protection. -- 8. Collective enforcement of consumer law in Europe ; private, public, and collective mechanisms.

Remedies in EU Competition Law

Remedies in EU Competition Law
Author: Damien Gerard
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2020-07-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9403522445

By their nature, remedies are central to competition law enforcement and represent the yardstick against which the efficiency of the overall system can be measured. Yet very rarely have remedies been treated in a horizontal and comprehensive manner from the combined perspectives of substance, process and policy. The present volume, developed in partnership with the College of Europe’s Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC), provides coherent, practical, and authoritative commentaries by leading experts from the GCLC’s incomparable network. The contributions – originally presented at the 2019 GCLC annual conference – examine remedies to assess the overall effectiveness of competition law enforcement in merger, antitrust and State aid matters. The overall topic is presented under five headings: objectives and limitations of remedies; types of remedies in competition law enforcement; implementation and process; ex post assessment of remedies and policy lessons; and national and international approaches. The high-profile and wide-ranging group of authors includes the Director-General of the European Commission’s competition department, lawyers from major international firms, and well-known economists and academics specialising in competition law. With a sharp focus on how to make competition rules work well in today’s digital environment, this systematic and coherent analysis illuminates an issue that we need to fully grasp and understand in order to make sense of competition policy, law and enforcement in the years and decades to come.

Private Enforcement of EU Law Before National Courts

Private Enforcement of EU Law Before National Courts
Author: Folkert Wilman
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1784718491

Private Enforcement of EU Law before National Courts successfully illustrates how legal actions brought by private parties can be instrumental in strengthening compliance with EU law. Through a detailed examination of selected EU legislation across the fields of procurement, intellectual property rights, consumer protection, and competition law, Folkert Wilman compares various remedies and procedures in which private parties have been utilised in the redress of grievances under EU law. An essential reference work for practicing lawyers acting before domestic courts in matters of EU Law, this timely publication offers new insights into private enforcement as a supplementary enforcement instrument, and offers clarity on how such a tool impacts on contractual remedies, procedural issues and the role of judicial review.

The Law and Economics of Enforcing European Consumer Law

The Law and Economics of Enforcing European Consumer Law
Author: Franziska Weber
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317026136

In the internet age, the need for effective consumer law enforcement has arguably never been greater. This timely book is a comparative law and economic analysis of the changing landscape of EU consumer law enforcement policy. EU member states are moving away from purely public or private law enforcement and now appear to be moving towards a more mixed approach, not least due to European legislation. This book reflects on the need for and creation of efficient enforcement designs. It examines the various economic factors according to which the efficiency of different enforcement mechanisms can be assessed. Hypothetical case scenarios within package travel and misleading advertising, dealing with substantial individual harm and trifling and widespread harm are used to illustrate various consumer law problems. Design suggestions on how to optimally mix enforcement mechanisms for these case scenarios are developed. The findings are then used as a benchmark to assess real life situations in countries with different enforcement traditions - the Netherlands, Sweden and England. The book is of value to both researchers and policy-makers working in the area of consumer protection.

New Frontiers of Consumer Protection

New Frontiers of Consumer Protection
Author: Fabrizio Cafaggi
Publisher: Intersentia NV
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Collective redress has gained momentum in Europe and North America. Legal reforms are driven by different institutional conditions but show a limited degree of convergence. In this book, seventeen contributions from the US, Canada, and the Member States of the European Union put the interplay of public enforcement and private collective judicial enforcement into perspective. The parameters of analysis are the constitutional dimension (i.e. three multi-level systems compared US, EC, and Canada, vertically: allocation of powers between levels and distinction between regulation and private law and administrative control versus judicial control; horizontally: degree of harmonization, trans-border litigation, choice of law), the institutional dimension (the players, regulatory and judges, private organization and lawyers) and the substantive dimension (regulation through administrative law versus regulation through tort or contract law, standard setting (strict liability versus negligence), remedies (injunctions and damages). These three parameters are then broken down into five sections: general comparison, the public/private enforcement divide, remedies concerning the distinction between injunction and damages as well as between class actions and group actions, negotiation and adjudication, trans-border litigation and international private law. The final chapter develops prospects to indicate the way ahead.