Abstract
Our discussion of the topic of the protection of individuals from big companies’ and multinationals’ malpractice, according both to the European and the Greek Competition Law, moves along two separate axes: one having to do with a presentation of the current situation prevailing in the field of the Greek Competition Law, i.e. the situation prior to the implementation of the EU Directive 2014/104 and the other related to a forecast of the possible consequences of this implementation. For this second part, we make the choice to refer ourselves to the US Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) and the possibility of the formation of a framework of international law rules protecting human rights from the breaches and trespasses of big companies. We conclude that when Competition Law rules fulfil their inherent goal, that is welfare of the society as a whole, they have the potential to operate as a tool of enhancing civil society vis-à-vis big companies and multinationals, thus moving in parallel with international law’s endeavour to create an area of protection of human rights from their malpractice.
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April 2018.
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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 (OJ L 349, 5.12.2014, p. 1).
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Bishop and Walker (1999), p. 5.
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Kaplow (2012), pp. 30–31.
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Papadopoulos (2010), pp. 36–50.
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Unfair Competition Law 146/1914, inspired by the German legislation.
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Tzouganatos (2005).
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Truli (2009), p. 188.
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Loukas and Nteka (2010), p. 1.
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Law 703/1977 had been previously amended to a greater or lesser extent by a series of acts, such as Laws 1934/1991, 2000/1991, 2296/1995, 2323/1995, 2741/1999, 2837/2000, 2941/2001, 3105/2003, 3373/2005 and 3784/2009.
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Truli (2012), pp. 280–285.
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Truli (2012), pp. 280–285.
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Truli (2012), p. 285.
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Dabbah (2003).
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Robertson (2012), pp. 232–234.
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US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Kiobel vs. Royal Dutch Petroleum, September 17, 2001, in Robertson (2012), pp. 235–236.
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Robertson (2012), p. 234.
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Hutchens (2008).
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Robertson (2012), pp. 236–237.
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Robertson (2012), p. 237.
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Alston (2005).
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Compa and Diamond (1996).
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Robertson (2012), pp. 238–239.
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See also Frenz (2016), pp. 626, 628–629.
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Livas, S.S. (2018). Contemporary Trends in International Law in Relation to the Protection of Individuals from Multinationals’ Malpractice: Greek Competition Law After the Implementation of EU Directive 2014/104. In: Marino, S., Biel, Ł., Bajčić, M., Sosoni, V. (eds) Language and Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90905-9_7
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