Includes text of "Directive 2014/104/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2014 on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the member states and of the European Union, [2014] OJ L 349/1."

Includes papers presented as a conference "EU Competition Law and the Emerging Harmonization of Private Enforcement : The Upcoming Directive and Beyond" sponsored by the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies in cooperation with the Law Department at Uppsala University, in Uppsala on 17 May 2014.--ECIP preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the directive on competition damages actions / Ulf Bernitz -- Private enforcement of EU competition law : a comparison with, and lessons from, the US / Alison Jones -- Welfare effects of rights to damages--a practical approach and the Swedish perspective / Lars Henriksson -- Challenges for Swedish courts : will the new directive on competition damages actions help? / Ingeborg Simonsson -- The damages directive and other enforcement measures in EU competition law / Vladimir Bastidas Venegas -- Embedding procedural autonomy : the directive and national procedural rules / Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel -- Private enforcement of competition law in intellectual property cases / Paul LC Torremans -- Transparency and liability in leniency programmes: a question of balancing? / Xavier Groussot and Justin Pierce -- Access to documents for cartel victims and cartel members--is the system coherent? / Björn Lundqvist and Helene Andersson -- Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Portugal / Sofia Oliveira Pais -- Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Poland / Anna Piszcz -- Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Finland--causal links, the principle of effectiveness and requirements for national solutions / Katri Havu -- Practical private enforcement : perspectives from Greece and the Netherlands / Agis Karpetas -- Indirect purchasers--is there anything new in the directive? An introductory overview of the current and future status of indirect purchasers in the EU / Elisabeth Eklund -- Beyond the competition damages directive : what room for competition law restitution? / Magnus Strand -- The presumption and quantification of harm in the directive and the practical guide / Marios C Iacovides.