{"id":7691,"date":"2021-11-29T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T09:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carteldamageclaims.com\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2024-01-03T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T14:34:09","slug":"ag-rantos-delivers-a-halfway-opinion-on-the-temporal-application-of-the-eu-antitrust-damages-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carteldamageclaims.com\/de\/2021\/11\/29\/ag-rantos-delivers-a-halfway-opinion-on-the-temporal-application-of-the-eu-antitrust-damages-directive\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Rantos delivers a halfway opinion on the temporal application of the EU Antitrust Damages Directive (C-267\/20, AB Volvo, DAF TRUCKS NV \/ RM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7691\" class=\"elementor elementor-7691\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-622cf0cc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"622cf0cc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7539e625\" data-id=\"7539e625\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e4534d5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1e4534d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/juris\/fiche.jsf?id=C%3B267%3B20%3BRP%3B1%3BP%3B1%3BC2020%2F0267%2FP&amp;oqp=&amp;for=&amp;mat=or&amp;lgrec=fr&amp;jge=&amp;td=%3BALL&amp;jur=C%2CT%2CF&amp;num=C-267%252F20&amp;dates=&amp;pcs=Oor&amp;lg=&amp;pro=&amp;nat=or&amp;cit=none%252CC%252CCJ%252CR%252C2008E%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252Ctrue%252Cfalse%252Cfalse&amp;language=en&amp;avg=&amp;cid=716807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion<\/a> of 28 October 2021 (\u2018Opinion\u2019), Advocate General (\u2018AG\u2019) <strong>Rantos confirmed that the nature of the rules implementing the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/en\/ALL\/?uri=CELEX%3A32014L0104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>EU Damages Directive<\/strong><\/a><strong> (\u2018Directive\u2019) is determined by EU law and not by national law<\/strong>. The AG states that the provisions on limitations and presumption of cartel-related harm are substantive. In contrast, the possibility for national judges to estimate the amount of harm is a procedural provision. Moreover, <strong>AG Rantos considers that pre-Directive knowledge-based limitation periods applied to cartel damage claims could reasonably begin with the publication of a fining decision\u2019s multilingual summary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Opinion rightly suggests that certain Directive\u2019s provisions reflect the EU Court of Justice\u2019s caselaw on applying the EU principle of effectiveness. It explains that national courts are not precluded from referring to the Directive when interpreting pre-Directive national rules in conformity with EU law. What is less clear, however, is the reference of the AG to an objective event, namely the date of publication of short multilingual summaries of fining the decisions, as a crucial element for the starting point of a subjective pre-Directive limitation period, irrespective of the specific circumstances of each case.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Factual context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>On 19 July 2016, the European Commission (\u2018Commission\u2019) sanctioned several truck manufacturers for participating in an EEA-wide cartel between 17 January 1997 and 18 January 2011 (\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/competition\/elojade\/isef\/case_details.cfm?proc_code=1_39824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LKW-Kartell<\/a>\u2019). A <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/IP_16_2582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a> on adopting the Commission decision appeared on 19 July 2016. The <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/competition\/antitrust\/cases\/dec_docs\/39824\/39824_8750_4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">non-confidential version<\/a> in English of that decision and its <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/?uri=CELEX:52017XX0406(01)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multilingual summary<\/a> were published on 6 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Directive, which entered into force on 26 December 2014, with the implementation deadline on 27 December 2016, was transposed into Spanish law by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boe.es\/boe\/dias\/2017\/05\/27\/pdfs\/BOE-A-2017-5855.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Real Decreto-Ley 9\/2017<\/em><\/a> of 27 May 2017.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Having bought trucks during 2006 and 2007, the Spanish company RM sued AB VOLVO and DAF TRUCKS NV for damages in the Commercial Court of Leon (\u2018Court\u2019), Spain, on 1 April 2018. In 2019, the Court stayed the proceedings and referred several questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (\u2018CJEU\u2019). The questions concern the application to the claims of rules implementing Article 10 and Article 17 of the Directive into Spanish law and the conform interpretation of the Spanish one-year statute of limitations rule that predates the Directive, in accordance with the EU principle of effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion by the Advocate General<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Opinion begins by pointing out that, although the action for damages was brought after the entry into force of the Directive and the transposition provisions, the action relates to an infringement that ended before the new provisions (para. 23). AG Rantos recalls that under Article 22(1) of the Directive, (i) national provisions adopted to comply with the Directive\u2019s substantive provisions do not apply retroactively (para. 32), while (ii) the procedural provisions apply to actions brought after the entry into force of the Directive (para. 36). The Opinion then explains that the <strong>EU legislator did not specify which of the Directive\u2019s provisions are substantive or procedural<\/strong>. According to the AG, this has led to divergent approaches in the Directive\u2019s transposition between the Member States. Such an outcome, however, undermines the objective of ensuring the uniform application of competition law throughout the EU and hinders the legal certainty requirement(para. 43). Therefore, AG Rantos advises that the<strong> question of which Directive\u2019s provision is substantive, and which is not must be assessed under EU law and not under national law<\/strong> (para 58).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thus, the Directive\u2019s provisions on <strong>limitations (paras. 64 to 69) and the presumption of harm (paras. 78 to 84) are substantive<\/strong>. In contrast, the possibility for national judges to <strong>estimate the amount of harm is a procedural provision<\/strong> (paras. 70 to 77).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thus, the Opinion specifies that the Directive\u2019s procedural provisions apply in<em> casu<\/em>, while the provisions described as substantive are deprived of retroactive effect and do not apply (para. 52). The relevant moment for determining the temporal application of national rules adopted to comply with the Directive\u2019s substantive provisions would be the event giving rise to the conditions of liability, that is the occurrence of the antitrust infringement (para 49). Therefore, the <strong>damage claims had to be governed by the substantive provisions in force at the time <\/strong><strong>of <\/strong><strong>the infringement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As for the compliance of the Spanish pre-Directive subjective limitation rule with the EU principle of effectiveness, the AG stated that all the relevant elements<a>\u2014<\/a> such as duration, starting point, and possibilities for suspension or interruption\u2014should be assessed together (paras. 99 to 102). National rules and their interpretation on the <strong>subjective limitation period\u2019s starting point must be adapted to the specific features of competition law<\/strong> (para. 106). The AG then specified that sufficient knowledge of certain crucial elements is needed before initiating a damages action (para. 107).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>According to the Opinion, the victims of competition infringements have <strong>no general duty of diligence\u2014be it consumers or professionals\u2014to follow the publication of fining decisions\u2019 press releases<\/strong> (paras. 118 to 121). That said, for the starting point of any subjective limitation period in follow-on actions for damages, awareness of all crucial elements should be presumed at the date when a multilingual summary of a fining decision is published in the EU Official Journal (para. 122 and para. 133). This presumption would be rebuttable. The AG further states that the right of a harmed person to sue for damages would arise upon adoption of the fining decision, and more precisely, its publication in the EU Official Journal (para. 123).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Finally, throughout the Opinion, the AG identifies elements revealing that<strong> to<\/strong><strong> a<\/strong><strong> large extent (with few exceptions), the Directive harmoni<\/strong><strong>z<\/strong><strong>es how the EU effectiveness principle\u2014as defined in the case-law of the CJEU\u2014is enshrined in the national (implementation) laws governing actions for antitrust damages<\/strong><strong> (see Article 4 of the Directive)<\/strong>. The AG also recalls that other relevant rules not specifically dealt with by the Directive must also be applied or interpreted in accordance with the principle of effectiveness. Yet the AG is not more specific and straightforward on the <em>effet utile<\/em> of the Directive\u2019s substantive provisions when assessing the effective enforcement of claims predating the Directive\u2019s entry into force and implementation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It is evident that the nature of the Directive\u2019s provisions and their national implementation are determined under EU law. Disturbingly, however, the AG does not discuss that the<strong> Supreme Courts of several Member States had referred to the Directive\u2019s substantive provisions <\/strong>when they interpreted the pre-Directive national rules in accordance with the EU principle of effectiveness. Rather than pointing to the Directive\u2019s <em>effet utile<\/em>, an unnecessary reference is made to the <em>Fiches pratiques<\/em> of a Member State where antitrust damages litigation never really took off before or after the Directive.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It is also not convincing that, for the relevant time for applying substantive provisions, the Opinion mixes the (single) end date of the continuous infringement with the (multiple moments of) occurrence of individual harm. Should the substantive provisions of the Directive apply to all claims for damages where the antitrust infringement begins before the adoption\/implementation of the Directive and ends afterward? The Opinion also does not discuss the Directive\u2019s effectiveness-oriented purpose (both procedural and substantive provisions) and the principle of subsidiarity that underlies its adoption. The Opinion also seems to consider that a single objective element plays a key role in commencing the limitation period. The AG might play the sorcerer\u2019s apprentice role by ensuring a conform interpretation of the Spanish one-year subjective limitation period with EU law while<strong> omitting the most important piece of the puzzle, the (required) subjective knowledge of the harm<\/strong>. According to the well-established case-law of the Spanish Supreme Court, in accordance with the EU principle of effectiveness, the one-year limitation period must be interpreted narrowly on a case-by-case basis. Thus, for the starting point of such a short limitation period, knowledge of the specific (individual) harm (and even its precise extent) plays a key role. Typically, determining antitrust-related harm requires comprehensive data collection and careful analysis. The AG, however, seems to overlook the fact that knowledge is inherently subjective and cannot simply be presumed (for everyone), independent of the specific circumstances of a case, at the date of publication of a short multilingual summary of a fining decision.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Juraj Siska and Vasil Savov<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his opinion of 28 October 2021, Advocate General Rantos confirmed that the nature of the rules implementing the EU Damages Directive is determined by EU law and not by national law. The Advocate General states that the provisions on limitations and presumption of cartel-related harm are substantive. In contrast, the possibility for national judges to estimate the amount of harm is a procedural provision. Moreover, AG Rantos considers that pre-Directive knowledge-based limitation periods applied to cartel damage claims could reasonably begin with the publication of a fining decision\u2019s multilingual summary.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,55,64,54,63,46,40,37,36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[136,130],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartels","category-cjeu","category-competition-law","category-damages-directive","category-eu-law","category-limitation-periods","category-private-enforcement","category-spain","category-trucks-cartel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AG Rantos delivers a halfway opinion on the temporal application of the EU Antitrust Damages Directive (C-267\/20, AB Volvo, DAF TRUCKS NV \/ RM) - CDC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carteldamageclaims.com\/de\/2021\/11\/29\/ag-rantos-delivers-a-halfway-opinion-on-the-temporal-application-of-the-eu-antitrust-damages-directive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AG Rantos delivers a halfway opinion on the temporal application of the EU Antitrust Damages Directive (C-267\/20, AB Volvo, DAF TRUCKS NV \/ RM) - CDC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In his opinion of 28 October 2021, Advocate General Rantos confirmed that the nature of the rules implementing the EU Damages Directive is determined by EU law and not by national law. 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