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...

Resume: On April 29, 2021, the French competition authority published its opinion on the sector of new technologies applied to payment activities. Faced with the major changes in the payments sector, the Authority has identified several points of vigilance. To quote...

Resume: The French competition authority, in its decision n°21-D-09 of March 24th, 2021, has imposed a sanction on three French sandwich producers for a cartel that lasted for more than 6 years on the sandwich production market. The decision highlights the importance...

Resume: In a judgment of March 26th, 2021, the French Constitutional Council censures paragraph V of article L. 464-2 of the French Commercial Code about fines pronounced by the French Competition Authority against obstruction attempts during investigations. To quote...

Resume: In the decision n°2015-715 DC of August 5th, 2015, the French Constitutional judge ruled unconstitutional article 39 of August 6th, 2015 Law. This article gave the French Competition Authority the possibility to adopt structural injunction measures against...

Resume: In the decision 19-D-23 issued on December 10th, 2019, the French Competition Authority decided not to pursue its investigation into hotel booking platforms Expedia and HRS which has started in 2013 after complaints from French hotel unions and the Accor group...

Resume: In the decision n°19-D-26 of December 19th, 2019, the French Competition Authority fined Google because of its non-transparent, discriminatory and inequitable general conditions seen as an abuse of its dominant position on the online search advertising market....

Resume: Alongside nine independent administrative institutions, the French Competition Authority has published a working paper on its role in the fight against global warming. The authority presented the tools it has at its disposal to assist economic players in...

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...

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...