Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 28 March 2019

Cogeco Communications Inc v Sport TV Portugal SA and Others

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Judicial da Comarca de Lisboa

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 102 TFEU — Principles of equivalence and effectiveness — Directive 2014/104/EU — Article 9(1) — Article 10(2) to (4) — Articles 21 and 22 — Actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union — Effects of national decisions — Limitation periods — Transposition — Temporal application

Case C-637/17


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
17/05/2019 Cogeco Communications
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2019:263
28/03/2019 Cogeco Communications
Abstract
ECLI:EU:C:2019:263
28/03/2019 Cogeco Communications
Application (OJ)
12/01/2018 Cogeco Communications
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2019:32
17/01/2019 Cogeco Communications
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.05 Legal acts of the European Union
    2.05.08 Application ratione temporis
3 Legal proceedings
  3.04 Reference for a preliminary ruling
    3.04.02 Jurisdiction of the Court of Justice
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.02 Dominant position
      4.08.02.00 General
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.02 Dominant position
      4.08.02.00 General
3 Legal proceedings
  3.04 Reference for a preliminary ruling
    3.04.02 Jurisdiction of the Court of Justice


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 15/11/2017

Date of the Opinion

  • 17/01/2019

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

28/03/2019


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 187 from 03.06.2019, p.21

Application: OJ C 32 from 29.01.2018, p.14

Name of the parties

Cogeco Communications

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. v. Graevenitz, Albrecht: Wettbewerbsrecht: Verjährung kartellrechtlicher Schadensersatzansprüche, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht 2019 p.332-337 (DE)
  2. Drijber, Berend Jan: Private handhaving en het weerbarstige leerstuk van verjaring, Markt & Mededinging 2019 p.120-124 (NL)
  3. De Bandt, Pierre ; Binet, Chloé: Arrêt "Cogeco": le droit primaire au secours du demandeur de dommages et intérêts pour une infraction au droit de la concurrence, Journal de droit européen 2019 nº260 p.249-251 (FR)
  4. Holzwarth, Johannes: Verjährung à la Cogeco, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb 2019 N°7/8 p.342-347 (DE)
  5. van Wamel, David: Shining a Light on the Interface between EU and National Law in the Private Enforcement of the EU Competition Rules, European competition and regulatory law review: CoRe 2019 Vol.3 N°3 p.327-333 (EN)
  6. Chagny, Muriel: De l'application dans le temps de la Directive Dommages et de la prescription des actions indemnitaires, Revue de jurisprudence commerciale 2019 p.352-354 (FR)
  7. Klöpfer, Matthias: Anmerkung zu EuGH, Urt. v. 28.3.2019 - C-637/17 - Cogeco Communications Inc, Zeitschrift für das Privatrecht der Europäischen Union - GPR 2019 p.293-296 (DE)
  8. Idot, Laurence: Concurrence - Actions en réparation et prescription, Europe 2019, n° 5 Mai, Comm. 207 (FR)
  9. Strand, Magnus: Competition damages betwixt and between past and future: Cogeco, Common Market Law Review 2020, n° 2, p. 569-590 (EN)
  10. Parmentier, Hugues: Actions indemnitaires : l’harmonisation prétorienne pour compléter la directive dommages, Revue Lamy de la Concurrence 2020, nº 101, p. 41-47 (FR)
  11. Dinev, Anton: Absolute limitation periods and decentralised enforcement of articles 101 and 102 TFEU : what about Regulation 1/2003's effectiveness requirement? : Consiliul Concurentei v Whiteland Import Export SRL (C-308/19), Cogeco Communications Inc v Sport TV Portugal SA (C-637/17), (VEBIC) VZW v Raad voor de Mededinging (C-439/08), European Competition Law Review 2022 p. 13-27 (EN)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Tribunal Judicial da Comarca de Lisboa - Portugal

Subject-matter

  • Competition
  • Approximation of laws

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling
  • Reference for a preliminary ruling : case not proceeding to judgment

Formation of the Court

deuxième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Arabadjiev

Advocate General

Kokott

Language(s) of the Case

  • Portuguese

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • German