Resumen de EU Competition Law After Directive 2014/104/EU and Its Implementation in Italy
The admissibility of damages actions has not come as a surprise in Italy, when the Court of Justice of the European Union first upheld it in the Courage case. Nevertheless, Directive 2014/104/EU is to be welcome in order to grant more legal certainty in national proceedings. The Italian legislator has enacted the Directive by decreto legislativo 3/2017 (legislative decree). This chapter aims at analysing the new rules on private enforcement under the light of the Italian transposition and relevant praxis. It finally highlights the general line of continuity between the previous case law and the current system, and, at the same time, points out some meaningful breaks with the traditional solutions of the Italian legal system.
