EU competition rules are crucial to the strengthening of the Union’s internal market. And direct effect has long been a structuring legal principle of the Union’s legal order, helping to ensure its autonomous nature. Thus, the way in which the principle of direct effect and the EU’s antitrust provisions interact is of constant interest, especially in a recent context marked by the adoption of secondary legislation which has an influence on national legal regimes affecting the implementation of competition rules.
Originally published in the Revue des affaires européeenes/Law & European Affairs Review - September 2024.
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