What’s up in France?
Summary: In decision 20-D-02 from January 23, 2020, the French Competition Authority (FCA) dismisses the referral on the merits of the case by the Association des Opérateurs Télécoms Alternatifs (AOTA) for lack of evidence and, therefore, the request for protective...
Resume: A very first! Last summer, the French Competition Authority (FCA) blocked a merger for the first time since its creation in 2009. The operation showed a risk of coordinated effects that would have harmed competition by creating a duopoly. Neither the...
Summary: In the Apple decision number 20-D-04 of March 16th, 2020, the French Competition Authority fined Apple a record fine of €1.1 billion after finding that it had infringed competition law by practicing resale price maintenance and division of products and...
Summary: A decision of the Tribunal des conflits involving Google gathers the business secrecy litigation in antitrust procedures under the jurisdiction of the sole judiciary order. The case creates an occasion to present the way the French Competition...
Summary: Hot tea! In decision 20-D-20 from December 3rd, 2020, the French Competition Authority found Dammann Frères guilty of price-fixing practices in the online resale of its products by distributors. In the same decision, the Authority also rejected the complaint...
Resume: Is the Polynesian Competition Authority a jurisdiction? This is the question that the French Cour de cassation had to answer. In case n° 19-13.775, on 4 June 2020, the Cour de cassation held that the Polynesian Competition Authority is a judicial Authority. To...
To quote this paper: Tom Drivot, “The French report on Digital Platforms: the birth of an ex ante regulation”, Competition Forum - French Insights, 2020, art. n° 0001, https://www.competition-forum.com/ " Online platforms have taken a central place in our lives, our...