Jurisdiction: The Court of Justice of the European Union rules that a national court has jurisdiction to apply Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area in a private law dispute for damages for facts occurring before the entry into force of Regulation 1/2003 (Stichting Cartel Compensation et al.)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. At the beginning of this preliminary ruling, the European Commission had sanctioned 19 legal entities for having coordinated their tariff policies in the air freight sector between 1999 and 2006 (Comm. eur., dec. 17 March 2017, Fret Aérien, AT.39258, OJ C 188, p. 14-19). This decision was taken after a first decision, adopted in 2010, was annulled by the General Court of the European Union on procedural grounds in 2015. In this decision, the Commission imposed fines on the companies in question, reducing the infringement period in some cases to take account of the limits of its jurisdiction, in particular : for routes between EEA countries and third