Rafael P. Amaro
Université Caen Normandie
Professor
Rafael Amaro is Professor at the University of Caen Normandie (since 2019) after being Associate Professor at Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité (2013-2019). He teaches EU and French Competition Law, Human Rights, Civil Procedure and Tort Law. His researches focus mainly on the private enforcement of competition law and unfair commercial practices in B2B and B2C relationships. He is a member of the European network of legal experts Trans Europe Experts (TEE).
Linked authors
David Bosco
University Aix-Marseille
Till Schreiber
CDC Cartel Damage Claims (Brussels)
Catherine Piché
University of Montreal
Mick Smith
Calunius Capital (London)
Florian Wagner-von Papp
Helmut Schmidt University of the Armed Forces (Hamburg)
Anne-Sophie Choné-Grimaldi
University Paris Nanterre
Silvia Pietrini
University Lille 2
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This new period is less rich in “big” decisions than the previous one, which had no less than three judgments from the Court of Justice of the European Union, but it is marked by several atypical decisions that may announce a diversification of litigation. Recurring questions also continue to (...)
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This period is full of judgments from the Court of Justice of the European Union, which reveals, in hollow, some shortcomings of the 2014/104/EU Directive. In addition, the usual issues are front and centre: extinguishing prescription, problems related to the specialisation of internal (...)
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The commented decisions indicate the recurrent nature of procedural questions, especially those pertinent to national and international competence. Other decisions confirm the ever-growing litigation about compensation applying to the administrative court as well as the importance of the harm (...)
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The decisions commented in this article confirm the main features of the private enforcement of antitrust law in France. It is still a varied litigation between businesses. In follow-on litigations, claimants experience some recurring problems regarding prescription and passing on defence. In (...)
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The decisions commented in this article confirm the main features of the private enforcement of antitrust law in France. It involves mostly businesses. However, the cases brougth to French courts are less homogeneous than those of the previous periods. Concerning the legal issues dealt by (...)
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After a legislative process that lasted nearly twelve years, the epilogue has just been written: the directive 2014/104/EU is finally transposed into French law! The transposition provisions were inserted in a new Title VIII of Book IV of the Commercial Code. This title was created by the two (...)
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The decisions commented in this article confirm the main features of the private enforcement of antitrust law in France. It is still a varied litigation between businesses. In follow-on litigations, claimants experience some recurring problems regarding prescription and passing on defence. In (...)
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The most significant news in the past few months is the circulation in the very first days of September of two draft texts transposing Directive 2014/104/EU (an “ordonnance” and a “décret”). These drafts were provided for review by the department of the Minister of Justice in charge of civil matters (...)
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In a judgment of the 7th of January 2011, the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) adopted a broad approach of the loyalty principle when applied to the administration of evidence in anti‐competitive practices trials before the French National Competition Authority (Autorité de la (...)
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For its first edition, this six-monthly review presents and comments a selection of decisions issued in 2015 by French courts, mostly lower courts, concerning tort litigation based on a breach to French and EU antitrust law. It appears that this litigation only involves business disputes for (...)
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The directive on actions for damages for infringements of the competition law has been published on 26 november 2014. This On Topic aims to show the principal issues that arise from the expected implementation of the directive on national laws. Présentation Anne-Sophie Choné-Grimaldi Professeure (...)
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16th April 2014, The European Parliament adopted the Proposal for a Directive of 11th June 2013 on certain rules governing actions for damages for infringements of the competition law provisions (one of the private enforcement components). The text bodes for the long-awaited developement of (...)
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This paper adresses the question of interim measures proceedings in French courts. Litigation data indicate that interim measures provide the victims of cartels and abuse of dominance an interesting option to seek relief. In the cases reported, jurisdictions grant the plaintiffs injunctions to (...)
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La réparation des préjudices causés par les pratiques anticoncurrentielles
Ce recueil rassemble et commente l’essentiel des décisions de justice rendues par les juridictions françaises sur la réparation des dommages causés par les pratiques anticoncurrentielles (private (...)
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5 March 2019
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A quoi sert la concurrence ?
Voir l’avant-propos de Laurence Idot, Frédéric Jenny et Nicolas CharbitLa préface de Martine Béhar-Touchais La liste complète des contributeurs ainsi que la table des matières Valérie Benabou:100 (...)
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30 September 2014
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