1 Amendments of Bernhard RAPKAY related to 2013/0185(COD)
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Whereas Member States should be encouraged to maintain or introduce collective redress schemes for the purpose of strengthening the claimants' possibilities to bring actions for damages for infringement of competition law, common rules are required at Union level in order to allow damaged parties in all Member States to avail themselves of such schemes in order to ensure greater equality of arms between the parties to the dispute. In order to preserve the consumers' right of choice and avoid abusive use, such schemes should comply with the framework set out by European Commission Recommendation 2013/396/EU.