The EU Directive on Antitrust Actions for Damages and Its Side-Effects on Civil Procedure in the European Union

Many commentators have addressed the impact of the recent EU Directive on antitrust damages actions (“Directive”) in direct relation with the highly controversial issue of the extent to which plaintiffs should be granted access to the files held by national competition agencies, especially with reference to key inculpatory documents submitted by leniency applicants.

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