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Scope of liability for breach of EU competition rules
Pipková, Petra Joanna ; Tichý, Luboš (advisor) ; Bejček, Josef (referee) ; Král, Richard (referee)
Scope of liability for breach of EU competition rules JUDr. Petra Joanna Pipková, LL.M.eur The purpose of the thesis is finding of an effective instrument of defining the scope of liability for breach of EU competition law and the actual definition of the scope of liability. In particular, the thesis aims to prove that, contrary to the prevailing view, only direct victims of violation of EU competition rules should be compensated. The thesis is divided into four chapters; the first being devoted to the general methodology of the thesis, private and public enforcement of competition law and to the claim for damages under the EU law. The analysis of private and public enforcement of competition law is an important basis for the whole thesis. The question to which extent the damages claim are important for the enforcement of competition law determines the function of damages claims in the area of competition law. The thesis arrives at the belief that private enforcement is not the main tool fir the enforcement of EU competition law. However, it is a very important tool. The following chapter focuses generally on damages claims in the area of competition law (the foundation of the claim for breach of competition law, of the claim for breach for unfair competition law and of the claim for breach of morality)....
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