Cartel: The Court of Justice of the European Union rules that the victims of the air cargo cartel can rely on the violation of these provisions before a national court to obtain compensation (Stichting Cartel Compensation a. o.)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 11 November 2021, the Court of Justice of the Union delivered its judgment in case C-819/19 (Stichting Cartel Compensation and others)following a request for a preliminary ruling by the Amsterdam Court of Justice. The present case follows on from the decision of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities in which it readopted a previous decision annulled by the Court of First Instance of the European Communities on the grounds of a procedural defect and, in so doing, sanctioned the air cargo cartel by imposing fines totalling EUR 776 465 000 on 11 carriers. The applicants, two companies set up specifically to recover the claims which they