2007 COMPETITION LAW OVERVIEW
September 2008 -
Corporate and commercial.
2007 overview of competition law has been particularly interesting, bringing with it a few surprises as well as its share of controversy.
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Getting the Deal Through - France 2009
Business entities that are most commonly adopted by franchisors are those that allow them to limit their liability and thus to control the risk they are ready to assume when launching a franchise. -
LEGAL NEWSLETTER
This issue features topical legal issues which you may encounter: (1) COMPANY LAW / SECURITIES LAW (2) COMPETITION / DISTRIBUTION (3) BANKRUPTCY (4) LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT LAW (5) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (6) NEW TECHNOLOGIES -
LABOUR LAW NEWS
The Court of cassation continued its work of clarification, initiated last year, regarding the sensitive issue of the definition of and link between the concepts of formal acknowledgment, resignation, cancellation by the courts and dismissal. -
DOING BUSINESS IN FRANCE - May 2008
With increased globalisation, and the opening of additional foreign offices in Asia and North Africa over the last two years, the clientele of Lefèvre Pelletier & associés has never been more international. -
2007 COMPETITION LAW OVERVIEW
2007 overview of competition law has been particularly interesting, bringing with it a few surprises as well as its share of controversy. -
Newsletter (May 2008)
This issue features topical legal news as well as a focus on legal issues which you may encounter. -
New measures in the electronic communications sector
French Act no. 2008-3 dated 3 January 2008 on the development of competition to benefit consumers (the Chatel Act), provides for new measures to benefit consumers. -
Liability of companies that host file-sharing websites – Wikipedia,a web host found not liable
After the file-sharing websites “DailyMotion” and “MySpace”, it was the turn of the famous online, free and collectively-compiled encyclopaedia “Wikipedia” to be hauled before French courts. -
Publication of Act n°2007-1544 dated 29 October 2007 on anti-infringement measures
The anti-infringement Act, which transposes European Directive 2004/48/EC of 29 April 2004 on the enforcement of intellectual property rights into French law, establishes provisions regarding the simplification of proceedings (1), regarding the right of victims of infringement to obtain information on the perpetrators of the infringement relating to the strengthening of penalties (3). -
Changes brought in by the Chatel Act as regards distribution
The French Act no. 2008-3 dated 3 January 2008 on the development of competition for the benefit of consumers, called the Chatel Act, provides for a certain number of important measures regarding relations between producers and distributors (retailers). These measures consist notably of modifying the method used to calculate below-cost selling thresholds (1), of requiring the execution of a single agreement setting out the terms and conditions which arise out of sales negotiations between suppliers and distributors/retailers (2), and of providing that failure to communicate the general terms and conditions of sales is no longer a criminal law offence (3).