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Resume: Almost 10 years after the publication of the initial version and following the public consultation conducted at the end of last year, the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la concurrence) published on May 24, 2022 a largely revised version of its...
Resume: Politics is a tool of law, but should law be a political tool? Yet another antitrust case is aiming one of the GAFA’s. Judge Boasberg has finally agreed to hear the FTC's complaint against Facebook after a first temporary dismissal of the case. Accusing the...
Resume: Competition objective or policy? What should be prioritised? This is the question that arose before the French Competition Authority here. What could have been a classic merger control between two large companies becomes a first for the French Competition...
To quote this paper: V. GIOVANNINI, “The abuse of a dominant position on alternating current”, Competition Forum, 2022, n° 0038, https://competition-forum.com.What future for the abuse of dominant position? The future of European competition law is not only written at...
Resume: Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation allows EU member states to ask the Commission to examine a concentration not meeting the EU thresholds. Especially in the light of the Commission’s recent switch to expansive interpretation and use of the said Article 22,...
Resume: The PlayStation face controller case dealt with by the French Competition Authority could only have been dealt with in the traditional way without the intervention of the courts. However, the procedural aspects of competition law can still sometimes leave some...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary: This paper considers one of the recent regulatory developments in the EU, the DMA and analyses the...
This paper was first published in French in: Contrats Concurrence Consommation, December 2021, no 12, comm. 186....
Resume: It's the end of the second round in the Google Shopping case, and the company has lost this battle again. The Commission had already imposed a serious penalty during its record decision in 2017. But this time it is the court that does not hesitate to confirm...
Abstract: In the December 2020, the European Commission has presented its proposal for a Digital Market Act (DMA) aiming at promoting competition and preventing unfair practices on digital markets. The DMA creates a new category of platforms, ``gatekeepers'', based on...