Transposition of the EU Damages Directive in France: Views on the new title VIII of French commercial code’s book IV

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. After a legislative process that will have lasted nearly twelve years, the epilogue has just been written: Directive 2014/104/EU of the European Parliament and the Council of 26 November 2014 is finally transposed into French law! For the most part, the transposition provisions have been inserted into a brand new Title VIII of Book IV of the Commercial Code created by the Order [1] and Decree of [2] 9 March 2017. But before we present these texts, a little history. 1. History of the reform. Discussions on the need to reform the rules applicable to actions for damages for anti-competitive practices were formally launched in 2005 following the publication