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The Competition Authority’s first enforcement of the new leniency procedure to the sale of access to databases on companies

The Competition Authority’s first enforcement of the new leniency procedure to the sale of access to databases on companies

Resume: In a recent decision, no. 23-D-04 dated April 12, 2023, the French Competition authority uses, for the first time, to fully exonerate a company guilty of price fixing and client allocation, the new leniency procedure stemming from Act no. 2020-1508 of December...
Anticompetitive practices and penalty calculation in franchise network:  comparing online sales and professional clientele restrictions

Anticompetitive practices and penalty calculation in franchise network: comparing online sales and professional clientele restrictions

Resume: In a recent decision (24-D-02, February 6th 2024), the French Competition Authority imposed a fine of 4 million euros on De Neuville and its parent company, Savencia Holding, for having implemented vertical agreements aimed at restricting, on the one hand, the...
Anticompetitive agreement among industry players regarding Bisphenol A in food packaging

Anticompetitive agreement among industry players regarding Bisphenol A in food packaging

Resume: In its decision numbered 23-D-15 dated December 29, 2023, the Competition Authority sanctioned a collective strategy involving three professional associations of food preservers, a syndicate of can manufacturers, and eleven companies as members of these...
Concerted practice implemented in the sector of securing tobacco: a consistent decision of the Competition Authority

Concerted practice implemented in the sector of securing tobacco: a consistent decision of the Competition Authority

Resume: In a recent decision (23-D-03, March 20th 2023) the french Competition Authority jointly and severally imposed a fine of 25,000 euros on “GROUPE SAVE” and its parent company “AGE INVEST” for implementing anti-competitive practices in...
The sanction by the Competition Authority of National Confederation of French Tobacconists for the organization of boycott practices

The sanction by the Competition Authority of National Confederation of French Tobacconists for the organization of boycott practices

Resume: In a recent decision of September 26, 2023, n°23-D-09, the French Competition Authority sanctioned the National Confederation of French Tobacconists for organizing boycott practices aimed at obstructing the distribution of games from the Française Des Jeux...
Restrictive competition practices: the Cour de cassation opens up a new shortcut for judicial price control

Restrictive competition practices: the Cour de cassation opens up a new shortcut for judicial price control

Resume: The Cour de cassation clarifies the application of article L. 442-6, I, 1° of the commercial code to the price reduction obtained from a commercial partner and confirms the application of the law on restrictive competition practices to subcontracting...
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