“ASG 2”
摘要
Article 101 TFEU, read in conjunction with point 4 of Article 2, Article 3(1) and Article 4 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, and the first paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, must be interpreted as precluding an interpretation of national legislation which has the effect of preventing persons allegedly harmed by an infringement of competition law from assigning their rights to compensation to a provider of legal services so that it may assert them, collectively, in an action for damages that does not follow the decision of a competition authority finding such an infringement that is final and binding, in particular with regard to the establishment of the facts, provided that national law does not provide for any other possibility of grouping together the individual claims of those injured persons that would ensure the effectiveness of the exercise of those rights to compensation, and the bringing of an individual action for damages is, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, impossible or excessively difficult for those persons, with the result that they are deprived of their right to effective judicial protection.
Should it not be possible to interpret that national legislation in a way that complies with the requirements of EU law, those provisions of EU law require the national court to disapply that national legislation.