Study On Private Enforcement Of Antitrust Law

Antitrust law is regarded as an important part in protecting the competition of the market and preventing the anti-competitive actions. The private enforcement of antitrust law was originated form the U.S.A and after a century of practice, it has been promulgated by more than one hundred countries and districts.Although the private enforcement of antitrust law has its disadvantages, the theoretical analysis and practice experiences of representative countries indicate that private enforcement is necessary and important for the effective enforcement of antitrust law, the enforcement mechanism of antitrust law which involves both public and private enforcement should be a right choice.This paper consists of three chapters:Chapter One is mainly about the conception of private enforcement, history, advantages and disadvantages. Besides, it also analyzes the necessity of establishing the private enforcement mechanism.Chapter Two illustrates the antitrust private litigation system in the U.S.A, EU and Japan which includes the concept, access to evidence, limitation of actions, the coordination of public and private enforcement and so on.Chapter Three analyzes the private enforcement of China Anti-Monopoly Law.This paper also gives some suggestions on improving and perfecting the private enforcement in order to achieve the purpose of the Anti-Monopoly Law.