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White Paper on Damage Actions for Breach of the EC Antitrust Rules: Plea for a More Holistic Approach to Antitrust Enforcement

On April 2, 2008 the European Commission (Commission) published a White Paper on damage actions for breach of Articles 81 and 82 EC (White Paper),1 putting forward “a set of recommendations to ensure that victims of competition law infringements have access to truly effective mechanisms for claiming full compensation for the harm they have suffered”.2 The White Paper is accompanied by a Commission Staff Working Paper on Damages Actions for Breach of the EC antitrust rules,3 which provides more detailed analysis on which the White Paper is based. While being clothed as an initiative to ensure compensation for victims of an unlawful action, the White Paper essentially aims to strengthen the private enforcement of Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty4 (Articles 81 and 82 EC), hence affecting the enforcement framework of antitrust rules in the European Union. The purpose of this article is not to add to the already large amount of literature analysing the specific recommendations in the White Paper (or the options discussed in the years preceding the White Paper) with respect to their August 2009 European Competition Journal 515