It will be argued in this article that the EU Recommendation on common principles for collective redress might have limited impact on the field of competition law due to: several uncertainties regarding the legal standing in class actions; difficulties in their funding; and the risk of forum...

In 2006, the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic (hereafter, AMO) decided its first bid-rigging case concerning a cartel between six construction companies. According to the cartel decision, the six construction companies infringed the Act on the Protection of Competition as well as...

On 16 February 2010 the Competition Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina (KV) initiated an investigation into the potential margin squeeze and discriminatory practices applied by the incumbent telecom operator BH Telecom. The investigation was prompted by the complaint submitted by an independent...

This paper addresses the peculiarities of legal privilege-related rules in a number of jurisdictions and analyses the main similarities and differences between them. It focuses, in particular, on the legal privilege regime in the EU, Turkey and Ukraine. It is suggested in conclusion that some...

Competition Law is an important aspect of free market economy. It determines the functioning of the economic system based on the free market principles of supply and demand. Competition law is in the initial stage of its implementation in the Republic of Kosovo. Its development began in 2004...

The increasingly frequent reference to the protection of fundamental rights in the application of EU antitrust law is a trend that has grown significantly alongside the reforms brought about by Regulation 1/2003. Greater attention being given to fundamental rights is evident in the development...

The discussed judgment of the Supreme Court is in line with its other jurisprudence with respect to the classification of price agreements as practices restricting competition under Article 6(1)(1) of the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 1 of 16 February 2007 (hereafter: Competition Act...

On 17 April 2014, the Proposal for a Directive on antitrust damages actions was accepted by the European Parliament and sent to the EU Council of Ministers for final approval. In addition, a Recommendation was adopted in 2013 on common principles for injunctive and compensatory collective...

The reviewed book by Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka is entitled Publiczne i prywatne egzekwowanie zakazów praktyk ograniczających konkurencję: w poszukiwaniu zrównoważonego modelu współistnienia [Public and private enforcement of the prohibition of anticompetitive practices: in search of a...

The changes that occurred to the Energy Law Act of 10 April 1997 (in Polish: Prawo Energetyczne; hereafter PE) in 2009 were for the most part not the outcome of the Polish legislator directly amending the PE itself. Instead, they were a consequence of the amendment of other legal acts related to...