Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Portugal (II) : Actio Popularis – Facts, Fictions and Dreams

This paper builds on the results of research carried out into the private enforcement of competition law in Portugal, published in a previous issue of this journal. Its goal is to clarify the legal framework that governs the options offered to private parties that suffered damages as a result of antitrust infringements, and to complete it with an assessment of the viability of those options from an economic perspective, depending on the characteristics of each case