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Resume: This judgment of Court of Cassation reinforces the principle that the costs of competitors of a dominant company practicing predatory pricing must be disregarded in the implementation of the cost test. In the same way, it underlines, once again, the importance...
Resume: On the 25th of June 2020, The French National Assembly issued an information report about the digital platforms. The deputies highlighted the very fast development of the digital platforms and their impact on the market and its users. Moreover, in front of the...
Resume: In a decision dated September 10, 2021 (Décision n°21-DCC-161 du 10 septembre 2021 : pris de contrôle exclusif de certaines activités du groupe Bio c’Bon par la société Carrefour France), the French Competition Authority authorized the acquisition of Bio c’Bon...
Resume: On the eve of the French Presidency in the Council of the European Union in January 2022, the European Affairs Committee of the National French Assembly presented an information report on the Digital Market Act on 23 July 2021, introduced by Mrs. Christine...
Resume: With its decision, dated July 16, 2021, N°20/04300, the Paris Court of Appeal asked the European Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling to find out whether Article 102 of the TFEU can be applied to a concentration which would be below the thresholds of...
Resume: In this decision of the Paris Court of Appeal (CA Paris, 18 June 2020, n°19/08826), on referral from the Court of Cassation, the Court has to determine the amount of the penalty imposed on two companies, one of which is the subsidiary of the other, convicted...
Resume: On July 30, 2021, the French Competition Authority adopted and made public the new procedural notice on the method for determining sanctions. It replaces the initial procedural notice of May 16, 2011. The new notice was the subject of a public consultation...
Resume: On May 25, 2021, the Washington Attorney General Karl Racine opened an antitrust proceeding against the American giant Amazon. This latest case is one of the many that the company is facing, both in its home country and across the Atlantic in Europe. To quote...
Resume: Since 2011, the company Uber has been active on the passenger transport market. With it, a new competition appears for a profession that was alone on this market for a long time: taxis. Uber is a new business model, a new vision of entrepreneurship with what...
Summary: On February 22th this year, Carrefour was fined €1.75 million by the Paris Commercial Court for restrictive competition practicesafter 5 years of proceedings.We will come back to a case which is the first legal illustration of the new will of the French...