Article 17 of the Law for the balance of trade
relationships in the agricultural and food industry of October 30,
2018 (known as the "EGalim" Law) authorized the French
Government to recast by means of an ordinance Title IV of Book IV
of the French Commercial Code on transparency, practices that
restrict competition and other prohibited practices. This has now
been done with the publication of Ordinance No. 2019-359 of April
24, 2019.
The objective pursued by the legislator is to make the
rules governing business relationships, practices that restrict
competition and prohibited practices easier to understand and more
transparent, and to ensure greater legal certainty.
Article authored in collaboration with Cyrine Boudouda,
trainee-lawyer
