Ne bis in idem: Advocate General Juliane Kokott invites the Court to adopt the interpretation of ne bis in idem principle done by the European Court of Human Rights to which the idem depends only on the identity of the facts (Toshiba)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a very convincing conclusion presented in an Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Krajský soud v Brně - the Regional Court, Brno in the Czech Republic -, Advocate General Juliane Kokott considers that the Czech competition authority was entitled to to sanction, under national competition rules, the effects of anticompetitive products produced on the national territory, prior to the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union on 1 May 2004, by the agreement of global reach for insulated switchgear and controlgear under its national legislation, provided that the same facts are not in dispute. had not been sanctioned at the same time by the