Antitrust & Merger Control

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• Amazon is being fined €4m for unbalanced clauses in the contracts with its marketplace's third-party vendors.

  Article

  Submitted: 09 September 2019

  On September 02, 2019, the Paris Commercial Court imposed a civil fine of €4m on Amazon due to the significant imbalance resulting from 7 clauses in the contract concluded with third-party vendors on its amazon.fr platform. Amazon is also ordered to amend these clauses.

• The French Competition Authority fines Bikeurope €250,000 for restricting online sales

  Article

  Submitted: 09 July 2019

  The French Competition Authority has fined Bikeurope €250,000 for restricting online sales of its bicycles by its distributors.

• Revision of the provisions of the French Commercial Code relating to tariff transparency and restrictive practices of competition

  Article

  Submitted: 29 April 2019

  On Thursday 25 April the Government published two ordinances in the Official Journal pursuant to the law of 30 October 2018 on the balance of trade relations in the agricultural and food sector and healthy, sustainable and accessible food for all (Egalim law).

• French Competition Authority publishes its opinion on the distribution of medicines and medical biology sectors

  Article

  Submitted: 23 April 2019

  This opinion, published yesterday, is the result of several months of investigation and a broad public consultation. It will be followed by a second publication, dedicated to the process of setting drug prices, expected next summer.

• L’Autorité de la concurrence publie son avis relatif aux secteurs de la distribution du médicament en ville et de la biologie médicale privée

  Article

  Submitted: 15 April 2019

  L’avis publié hier est le résultat de plusieurs mois d’instruction et d’une large consultation publique. Une seconde publication, dédiée au processus de fixation des prix des médicaments, est attendue pour l’été prochain.

• European Commission fines Nike €12.5m for restricting cross-border sales

  Article

  Submitted: 04 April 2019

  ​In June 2017, the European Commission opened an investigation into the licensing and distribution practices of Nike. It found that Nike’s licensing agreements prevented its licensees from marketing Nike derivate products cross-border and online within the European Union.

• New Enforcement Action in Relation to Resale Price Maintenance – Once Again Heavy Fines in Germany and France

  Article

  Submitted: 08 February 2019

  The article deals with the recent actions in Germany (ZEG) and France against companies engaging in competition law infringements in the form of resale price maintenance.

• Purchasing Cooperations under Antitrust Scrutiny in Germany and France

  Article

  Submitted: 15 November 2018

  Are purchasing Cooperations still safe under Antitrust and Competition law?

• An agreement between competitors may be a competition restriction by object

  Article

  Submitted: 29 January 2018

  On 23 January 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its decision on the preliminary ruling referred to it by the Italian Council of State in the dispute between Roche and Novartis on the one hand and the Italian competition authority (AGCM) on the other.

• The French Competition Authority has, for the first time, imposed sanctions on a company for obstruction of an investigation before any decision has even been made on the merits

  Article

  Submitted: 22 December 2017

  The French Competition Authority (FCA) has implemented for the first time the procedure provided for by the second paragraph of Article L464-2 V of the French Commercial Code, which allows it to impose a financial penalty on any company obstructing one of its investigations.

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