The Hungarian Experience on Private Enforcement and Class Actions

The article overviews Hungarian case law on private enforcement of competition law, with a view on class actions. Group litigation has still a long way to go until it can exercise its full preventive force against infringers of competition rules in Hungary. As we will show in the article, neither the Hungarian Competition Authority, nor public interest representative bodies, and not even consumers are in a position to bring damages claims in competition cases successfully and effectively