Las asociaciones de consumidores ante el abuso de posición dominante en la Unión Europea

• Autores: Fernando Cachafeiro
• Localización: Cuadernos europeos de Deusto, ISSN 1130-8354, Nº 38, 2008 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Política de competencia: descentralización y reforma en la UE y en España), págs. 155-175
• Idioma: español
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  • español

    El trabajo analiza la iniciativa de la Comisión Europea incluida en el Libro Verde sobre reparación de daños y perjuicios por incumplimiento de las normas comunitarias de defensa de la competencia, que consiste en establecer cauces procesales específicos en los Estados miembros que faciliten la presentación por parte de las asociaciones de consumidores, de reclamaciones de daños y perjuicios contra empresas que abusen de su posición dominante en el mercado. La propuesta exige resolver algunas cuestiones problemáticas como la compatibilidad de las acciones colectivas con las individuales, la supervisión pública de las asociaciones legitimadas para velar por los intereses colectivos o el destino de la indemnización en aquellos supuestos en los que los consumidores no puedan ser fácilmente identificables o su perjuicio individual sea muy reducido.

  • English

    The purpose of this paper is to analyze the European Commission's Green Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules and its proposal to adopt specific procedures for collective damages claims within the Member States, which shall promote claims by consumer associations against dominant undertakings that abuse of its position in the market. In order to design these specific procedures for collective claims, a number of questions should be answered such as the compatibility between collective claims and the claims brought by individual consumers; the rules to determine which associations should have standing to sue; and the alternative means of compensation in cases where individual compensation cannot be accomplished due to the number of victims or the little amount of the individual loss.

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