La aplicación judicial del derecho de la competencia en Portugal

Abstract

By tradition, the judicial enforcement of competition law goes together (more or less) with civil legal sanctions (in particular with the nullity of business legal contracts and clauses contrary to competition rules), interim procedural-civil measures and judicial appeals on the decisions of the Competition Authority (AdC) (I). Less traditional and less well rooted are the civil proceedings for damages brought by those harmed by anticompetitive wrongdoing (II). In paragraph III we’ll discuss some specialties in the framework of companies groups (III).