Is the European Commission’s Consultation on Collective Redress Trying to Fix an Antitrust Litigation Landscape That is Not Broken?

In February 2011 the European Commission launched a public consultation on whether new EU-wide forms of collective redress should be introduced in order to strengthen the enforcement of European law. The consultation paper, entitled Towards a Coherent European Approach to Collective Redress (the “Consultation Paper”), is the result of recent collaboration between the Directorate-Generals for Competition (“DG COMP”), Health and