These Regulations make provision for implementing in part Directive 2014/104/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2014 on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union (O.J. No. L 349, 5.12.2014, p.1) (“the Damages Directive”) and for the alignment of the domestic competition regime in the Competition Act 1998 (“the 1998 Act”) with the provisions in the Damages Directive. This Note does not indicate where in United Kingdom law the Directive is already given effect.