In 2016, the European Union adopted the Directive on damages actions. Its main objective is to ensure that any victim who has suffered harm caused by antitrust infringement can effectively exercise the right to claim and obtain full compensation. With regard to mass harm situations, it is worth noting that the Directive does not include provisions on collective redress actions, which may have significant impact on the achievement of full compensation. Instead, the non-binding Recommendation on collective redress was adopted, which has brought hardly any development in antitrust collective litigation in the EU.
The aim of this dissertation is to assist in the development of an approach of antitrust collective redress for better achievement of full compensation. For this purpose, two antitrust enforcement models are compared.