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(Belgium/anti-trust) Are individual consumers expected (or even permitted) to sue anti-competitive corporations? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/Law

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A consumer protection agency advises individual consumers to take legal action against an anti-competitive enterprise. This seems really off to me. Is the advice good? I would generally expect either the government to prosecute anti-competitive corporations or perhaps other corporations who are damaged by the anti-competitive practice. Consumers are damaged of course, but for one consumer to ad-hoc “take a hit for the team” and sue essentially ensures a “diffusion of responsibility” where no one wants to finance a case that costs more than it’s worth to the individual.

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