Private enforcement: The Court of Justice of the European Union specifies the time at which Directive 2014/104/EU should takes effect and on the conformity to European Union law of national law provisions relating to the limitation period of actions for damages brought prior to the transposition of the directive (Cogeco / Sport TV Portugal)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Damages actions for losses suffered as a result of a company's participation in an offence are increasing at national level and with them the number of questions for preliminary rulings. Although the case reported here will have enabled the Court to provide useful clarifications on the application in time of Directive 2014/104/EU, it is only of interest, as in the Skanska case, for actions for damages brought not under the provisions transposing the Directive but under the ordinary law of liability (see CJEU, 14 March 2019, Vantaan kaupunki, Case