Collective Redress and EU Competition Law

Eda Şahin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781138478442
• eBook ISBN: 9781351068703
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Antitrust
• Index: Law

Exploring obstacles to effective compensation of victims of competition infringements, this book categorises the types of victims harmed and the types of losses arisen from these infringements to identify to what extent there is a need for enhanced private competition law enforcement in the European Union (EU) and the best way to address this need. It shows that there is a genuine need for facilitating consumer damages actions and that consumer claims are the only claims that can be pursued in a collective redress action. In order to compensate consumers and overcome barriers to effective enforcement of their right to damages, it structures a collective redress action for consumers by considering the following elements: i. the formation of the group, ii. the type of representative party iii. funding mechanisms and iv. calculation and distribution of damages.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Table of cases
• Table of legislation
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The notion of and need for collective redress actions
• 3. Commission initiatives on collective redress actions
• 4. Objectives of collective redress actions in EU competition enforcement
• 5. Consumer damages claims in EU competition cases
• 6. Grouping collective claims: Opt-in v opt-out
• 7. Designing collective redress actions: Representative party and funding rules
• 8. Calculation and distribution of damages in collective actions for consumers
• 9. Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Index