Finding the Right Balance – the Deliberations of the European Parliament on the Draft Legislation Regarding Damage Claims.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio’ : ‘the opportunity is often lost while we deliberate on it’.Observers sometimes resort to Publilius Syrus’ maxim to characterize the process of legislating on an EU legal framework for private enforcement of competition rules. After only a decade of deliberating, the European Commission submitted to the Council and the European Parliament its proposal for a directive on actions for damages in June 2013 - a date that is rather close to the end of the current European Parliament's term. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]