EU Lawmakers Pass Union-Wide Class Action Directive

The European Parliament approved a new union-wide collective action (or class action) directive last week, Law360 reports. 

The legislation, which goes into effect 20 days after it is published the Official Journal of the EU, allows consumers to bring U.S.-style class action lawsuits in all EU member states. All member states now have two years to transpose the directive into their own national laws to create their own rules for collective action lawsuits.

ILR’s Fair Deal For Consumers campaign, which has been covering these developments extensively, released “12 Recommendations for the Implementation of the EU Directive on Representative Actions” to help Member States fix the loopholes and flaws of the directive.