The Competition Appeal Tribunal’s refusal to certify the proposed salmon cartel collective action in Waterside Class Limited v Mowi ASA and Others [2026] CAT 32 is one of the clearest signals yet of…
Last week, the Spanish Supreme Court held a hearing on several appeals against four Provincial Court rulings regarding Scania’s liability for damages caused by the truck cartel (ES:APV:2025:1280; ES…
Beyond mediation: the deeper costs of the Supreme Court’s drive to standardize truck cartel damages litigation. Voluntary in form, coercive in toneThe recent non-jurisdictional agreement of the…
In Tuesday’s judgment C-253/53 – ASG 2, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) provides some clarification on the compatibility of German rules restricting the fiduciary assignment of cartel damage…
The term “Assignment Model” refers to a mechanism of bundling damage claims. It is not a statutory instrument, but in some Member States, such as Germany, it is possible as a workaround. The…
Introduction
Last week, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar delivered his Opinion in case C-253/23, a preliminary reference that stems from a form of collective private enforcement of competition law in…
With the (belated) transposition of the EU Representative Actions Directive (RAD) on 13 October 2023 by means of the RAD Implementing Act (Verbandsklagenrichtlinienumsetzungsgesetz – non-German…
The Digital Markets Act has been analysed from a myriad of prisms, both from the public and private enforcement perspectives. However, less attention has been dedicated to analysing the actual…
On November 3rd 2023, the University of Vienna, Department of European, International and Comparative Law, together with the European Circle for Competition Damages and the Austrian Society for…
