The Tribunal of the European Union sustains the Commission in the Illumina and Grail case thanks to a lengthy review of the article 22 of the Merger Regulation

Resume: The killer acquisition issue has reached a peak with Facebook-Whatsapp and Apple-Shazam Cases. As a result, thanks to a statement of the competition Commissionner Ms Margrethe VESTAGER, enshrined by a communication from the Commission, a change of doctrine in...

The French Competition Authority fines 3 laboratories for abusive efforts to segment the market

Resume: In a decision dated September 9, 2020 (Decision No. 20-D-11 of September 9, 2021 concerning practices implemented in the age-related macular degeneration (AMD) treatment sector), the French Competition Authority imposed a fine of € 444 million on Genentech,...

The new merger control guidelines: between evolution and clarification, the modernization of procedure and substance

Resume: On July 23, 2020, the French Competition Authority published new guidelines for merger control. The previous ones were dated July 10, 2013, therefore, the evolution of the practice may have shown that it was necessary to make a common guide for the management...

Google sanctioned by the French Competition Authority for abuse of dominant position in its self-preferencing on the online advertising market

Resume: On June 7th, 2021, Google was fined €220 million by the French competition authority for abuse of dominance in antitrust on the market for advertising servers for online publishers and mobile applications, in violation of articles L. 420-2 of the French...

The Court of Appeal of Paris on the basis of an expert report condemns jointly and severally two firms to compensate the prejudice they caused for their anti-competitive practice

Resume: After the European Commission fined companies for a cartel on animal feed phosphates in 2010 including Timab and CFPR companies, a follow-on action has been brought by the Doux Aliments companies before the French courts in order to be compensated for the...

Price fixing and prohibition of online sales: French competition authority fines companies in the sunglasses and eyewear sector

Resume: On July 22, 2021, after a long year of proceedings, the French Competition Authority heavily fined several companies involved in the sunglasses and eyewear sector, and in particular Luxottica, for restricting the pricing freedom of their official distributors,...