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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION Guidelines for national courts on how to estimate the share of overcharge which was passed on to the indirect purchaser · European Union

| (57) | The existence and extent of passing-on are linked to the loss of sales that generally will accompany any increase in prices. As described above, this loss of sales may be characterised as the volume effect, which a purchaser may claim for as loss of profit. The volume effect arises because the purchaser usually faces a downward sloping demand curve. If the initial overcharge is passed on down the supply chain, a volume effect will arise at all levels of the vertical chain. Hence, when the claim includes damages for volume effects, courts may have to estimate such an effect as well.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.