This volume in the Swedish Studies in European Law series, produced by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, heralds the new harmonised regime of private enforcement of EU competition law. In 2013, the Commission issued a Communication and Practical Guide to the quantification of harm in antitrust litigation and a Recommendation on collective redress. In 2014, the long-awaited Directive on actions for damages for infringements of EU competition law was finally adopted. In 2016, the Commission is expected to issue guidelines on the passing-on of overcharges. This book examines these recent developments and offers the perspectives of judges, officials, practitioners and academics. With a preface by Judge Carl Wetter of the General Court, the book explores five different themes. In section one, the main policy issues and challenges are presented. In section two, the new regime is placed in the bigger picture of recent EU law developments. In section three, the nexus between private enforcement and transparency is investigated. A comparative perspective is offered in section four by looking into private enforcement in five Member State jurisdictions. Finally, issues relating to causation, harm and indirect purchasers are explored in section five.

Table of Contents:
Part I: Main Policy Issues and Particular Challenges 1. Introduction to the Directive on Competition Damages Actions Ulf Bernitz 2. Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law: A Comparison with, and Lessons from, the US Alison Jones 3. Welfare Effects of Right to Damages—A Practical Approach and the Swedish Perspective Lars Henriksson 4. Challenges for Swedish Courts: Will the New Directive on Competition Damages Actions Help? Ingeborg Simonsson Part II: Private Enforcement and the New Directive in Context 5. The Damages Directive and Other Enforcement Measures in EU Competition Law Vladimir Bastidas Venegas 6. Embedding Procedural Autonomy: The Directive and National Procedural Rules Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel 7. Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Intellectual Property Cases Paul LC Torremans Part III: Transparency, Leniency Programmes, and Human Rights 8. Transparency and Liability in Leniency Programmes: A Question of Balancing? Xavier Groussot and Justin Pierce 9. Access to Documents for Cartel Victims and Cartel Members — Is the System Coherent? Björn Lundqvist and Helene Andersson Part IV: Private Enforcement Through National Actions 10. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Portugal Sofi a Oliveira Pais 11. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Poland Anna Piszcz 12. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Finland — Causal Links, the Principle of Effectiveness and Requirements for National Solutions Katri Havu 13. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Greece and the Netherlands Agisilaos Karpetas Part V: Harm, Indirect Purchasers, and Alternative Redress 14. Indirect Purchasers — Is there Anything New in the Directive? An Introductory Overview of the Current and Future Status of Indirect Purchasers in the EU Elisabeth Eklund 15. Beyond the Competition Damages Directive: What Room for Competition Law Restitution? Magnus Strand 16. The Presumption and Quantifi cation of Harm in the Directive and the Practical Guide Marios C Iacovides