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Directive 2014/104/EU, of the European Parliament and Council of 26 November 2014, related to damages claims derived from competition law infringements was transposed into Portuguese legislation through Law 23/2018 of 5 June 2018, marking the incorporation of a specific legal framework in this jurisdiction for these judicial claims. It is also an important new instrument in terms of the awareness of competition policy. The new legal framework offers legal certainty, particularly for all those potentially damaged by competition law infringements, also providing significant incentives for harmed parties to seek compensation in a swifter manner. Furthermore, Law 23/2018 focuses on certain innovative aspects in relation to the common civil framework, such as: the exclusive jurisdiction of the Competition Court for these types of judicial claims; it regulates the presumption of the existence of an infringement derived from the competition authorities' decisions; it allows for the use of class actions on the part of consumer protection associations or associations of undertakings; it provides a mitigated framework for the joint liability of co-offenders; and it also includes a method for the disclosure of evidence with some similarities to the Anglo-Saxon discovery model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to explain the main amendments introduced by Law 19/2012, of 8 May 2012, in view of the legal regime previously in force, Law 18/2003, of 11 June 2003. We will contextualize the amendments introduced by the new competition law regime and anticipate the potential consequences of the said regime to the enforcement of competition law in Portugal [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo presenta un análisis de la Directiva 2006/123/CE del Parlamento Europeo y la Comisión Europea, la cual regularía el sector de servicios del mercado interno de los Estados miembro de la Unión Europea. El texto discute los objetivos de la Directiva, sus ámbitos de aplicación y las medidas más importantes, así como los potenciales beneficios sociales de la legislación.

The new energy sector sanctions framework, included in Law 9/2013 of 28 January, creates a set of administrative offence procedural rules and gives ERSE – the Energy Services Regulatory Entity (Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos) broader investigation powers based largely on the rules and powers related to administrative offence procedures of the Portuguese Competition Authority. This article analyses what the new regime and the competition law regime under the new Competition Act (Law 19/2012 of 8 May) have in common. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]