Civil Enforcement of EEC Antitrust Law

Authors

Francis G. Jacobs, University of LondonFollow

Abstract

This paper examines whether and to what extent private civil remedies are, as a matter of law, and ought to be, as a matter of policy, available in the courts of the EEC Member States for breach of the antitrust provisions of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (the Treaty of Rome). These questions are addressed in Part I. Part II sets the issues in the broader context of the enforcement of the Treaty obligations of Member States. In this way, it is hoped to elucidate the relationship between national law and Community law, and also indirectly to illuminate the similarities and differences between the Community system and a federal system, the exploration of which has been one of Eric Stein's enduring contributions to legal scholarship.

Recommended Citation

Francis G. Jacobs, Civil Enforcement of EEC Antitrust Law, 82 Mich. L. Rev. 1364 (1984).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol82/iss5/16