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The French competition authority identifies competition risks, but authorises the transaction, a first application of the failing firm exception
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...
The abuse of a dominant position on alterning current
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...
Interview of Alexandr Svetlicinii on his book Chinese State Owned Enterprises and EU Merger Control (Routledge 2020)
Alexandr Svetlicinii is an associate professor at the University of Macau, Faculty of Law, Department of Global Legal Studies, where he also serves as the Program Coordinator of the Master of International Business Law in English Language. Prior to joining the...
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,...
The ‘Dutch clause’ of EUMR – An Overview
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,...
The appreciable effect on trade between Member states reframed by the highest French court
Resume: The significant effect on trade between member states is not only the result of effects that have already been observed. It can also be characterized on the basis of a set of indicators of which the ratio between overall sales and national sales is only one...
The french yogurt cartel : Cass. com 24 juin 2020 Andros et Cie n°17-20177
Resume: By a decision of March 11, 2015, the “Autorité de la concurrence” established that producers of dairy products, including the company Novandie and its parent company, the company Andros et Cie, had breached the provisions of Articles 101 of the Treaty on the...
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