The EU Court of Justice specifies the temporal scope on rules governing carry on damages for competition law infringements as well as the quantification of damages and the rebuttable presumption relating to the existence of a cartel following a decision by the Commission (Volvo / DAF Trucks)

The Court specifies the temporal scope of the rules governing the limitation period for bringing an action for damages for infringements of competition law and of the rules governing the quantification of the harm resulting from such infringements and the rebuttable presumption relating to the existence of harm resulting from a cartel * By decision of 19 July 2016, [1] the European Commission found that, by agreeing, first, on the prices of trucks in the European Economic Area (EEA) from 1997 to 2011 and, second, on the timing and passing on of costs for the introduction of emission technologies required by EURO 3 to EURO 6 standards, Volvo and DAF Trucks participated, with a number of other truck manufacturers, in a cartel contrary to the EU law rules prohibiting cartels. [2] A press