The Damages Lie in the Details: Why the Proposed Directive Fails in Harmonizing Incentives to Sue Across the European Union

Hans Friederiszick, Aug 12, 2013

One of the two main objectives of the proposed EU Directive (“EU Directive”) is to ensure effective compensation of victims of infringements of EU competition rules. Effective compensation throughout Europe has two components: first, an average level of compensation in the European Union that matches the average amount of damages (“Effectiveness Objective”); second, a regional distribution of awarded damages that reflects the regional dis