Harmonising EU Competition Litigation

Maria Bergström is Associate Professor of European Law at Uppsala University, Sweden.Marios Iacovides is Associate Professor in EU Law, Faculty of Law & Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University and Academy Researcher of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, Sweden.Magnus Strand is Doctor of Laws in European Law at Uppsala University, Sweden.

• Part I: Main Policy Issues and Particular Challenges1. Introduction to the Directive on Competition Damages Actions Ulf Bernitz2. Private Enforcement of EU Competition Law: A Comparison with, and Lessons from, the US Alison Jones3. Welfare Effects of Right to Damages—A Practical Approach and the Swedish Perspective Lars Henriksson4. Challenges for Swedish Courts: Will the New Directive on Competition Damages Actions Help? Ingeborg SimonssonPart II: Private Enforcement and the New Directive in Context5. The Damages Directive and Other Enforcement Measures in EU Competition Law Vladimir Bastidas Venegas6. Embedding Procedural Autonomy: The Directive and National Procedural Rules Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel7. Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Intellectual Property Cases Paul LC TorremansPart III: Transparency, Leniency Programmes, and Human Rights8. Transparency and Liability in Leniency Programmes: A Question of Balancing? Xavier Groussot and Justin Pierce9. Access to Documents for Cartel Victims and Cartel Members — Is the System Coherent? Björn Lundqvist and Helene AnderssonPart IV: Private Enforcement Through National Actions10. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Portugal Sofi a Oliveira Pais11. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Poland Anna Piszcz12. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Finland — Causal Links, the Principle of Effectivenessand Requirements for National Solutions Katri Havu13. Practical Private Enforcement: Perspectives from Greece and the Netherlands Agisilaos KarpetasPart V: Harm, Indirect Purchasers, and Alternative Redress14. Indirect Purchasers — Is there Anything New in the Directive? An Introductory Overview of the Currentand Future Status of Indirect Purchasers in the EU Elisabeth Eklund15. Beyond the Competition Damages Directive: What Room for Competition Law Restitution? Magnus Strand16. The Presumption and Quantifi cation of Harm in the Directive and the Practical Guide Marios C Iacovides