Keywords

• Competition
• Reference for a preliminary ruling
• Compensation for harm caused by a practice prohibited under Article 101(1) TFEU
• Collusive arrangements on pricing and gross price increases for trucks in the European Economic Area (EEA)
• Directive 2014/104/EU
• Rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union
• Article 22(2)
• Applicability ratione temporis
• First subparagraph of Article 5(1)
• Concept of relevant evidence which lies in the control of the defendant or a third party
• Article 5(2)
• Disclosure of specified items of evidence or relevant categories of evidence on the basis of reasonably available facts
• Article 5(3)
• Review of the proportionality of the request to disclose evidence
• Balancing the legitimate interests of the parties and third parties
• Scope of the obligations resulting from those provisions.