🚨 contrast competition update 🚨

👀 Yesterday, the Court of Justice of the European Union ('ECJ') issued its preliminary ruling regarding the damage claim by Heureka against Google following the European Commission’s Google Shopping decision.

💡 The ECJ reiterates that the principle of effectiveness of EU law is crucial and precludes national limitation rules which make it practically impossible or excessively difficult to claim damages for continuous anticompetitive practices.

💡 Importantly, the ECJ clarifies that, even in case of an infringement having started before the expiry of the time limit for transposing the Damages Directive, the latter’s rules on the limitation period (Article 10) apply.

💡 The ECJ further confirms that the first moment an injured party knows that the conduct constitutes an infringement coincides with the publication of the summary decision in the EU Official Journal.

Questions? Contact our competition partners Filip Tuytschaever, Herlinde Burez or Sebastien Engelen, or your usual contact at contrast.

You can read the ECJ’s press-release here 👉 https://lnkd.in/epnWb-kc

You can find the Judgment via the following link 👉 https://lnkd.in/efPctYTP

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