Compensation and anti-competitive practices: The Paris Court of Appeal renders two decisions encouraging the private enforcement of competition law (La Montagne et al./Aviscom/SNCF/Expedia)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. As the final deadline for transposition approaches and French law prepares to incorporate the amendments made necessary by Directive 2014/104/EU of 26 November 2014 on damages actions for breach of the provisions of competition law of the Member States and the European Union, attention will not fail to be drawn to two rulings handed down by Chamber 5-4 of the Paris Court of Appeal, the first on 7 December 2016 and the second on 14 December 2016. They deserve to be considered together as they illustrate the two procedural options available to litigants who consider themselves victims of anti-competitive practices: although the Directive has specifically