The European Commission (Commission) has opened formal proceedings against French group Suez Environnement over an alleged breach of a seal affixed to an office during an on-site inspection.

French legislation known as the Sapin II bill will change the legal framework for prevention and prosecution of corruption in France after its anticipated adoption by the end of the year. The final text has not yet been authorized, but the new provisions will most likely require, for the first time, companies that conduct business in France to implement anti-corruption compliance programs.

On 13 December 2012, following a complaint by the mobile network operator Bouygues Telecom, the French competition authority, Autorité de la concurrence, fined the two leading French MNOs, Orange and SFR, a total of €183.1 million for abusing the dominant position.

Le tribunal correctionnel de Lons-le-Saunier a prononcé, fin 2017 et pour la première fois, une peine d'emprisonnement avec sursis dans un contexte d'application de la loi anti-cadeaux.

On Nov. 12, 2021, the European Commission published its decision AT-40178 of July 8, 2021, fining BMW, Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche a total of 875 million euros for their involvement in a cartel...

On December 12, 2018, the General Court of the European Union partially annulled the Commission's decision on the existence of restrictive agreements and an abuse of dominant

Madame Zoude-Le Berre, l'Autorité de la concurrence de Nouvelle-Calédonie est entrée en fonction le 2 mars 2018

Companies should identify and, where appropriate, manage risk associated with gifts and entertainment by incorporating a clear policy into their overall corporate compliance strategy.

The Court therefore, in effect, took the view that it was legitimate to exclude this particular online-only platform from the network.

In a decision issued on September 18 2019, the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) recalled that while disparagement which constitutes an act of unfair competition necessarily results in a business disruption, ...

In its decision of April 12 2023, the French Competition Authority (the "Authority") condemned the price-fixing and market-sharing practices committed...

In accordance with its decision-making practice, the French Competition Authority ruled that these practices were abusive.

Almost one and a half years after the launch of the sector inquiry (see here), the French Competition Authority ("FCA") has released its conclusions on the functioning of competition in the pharmaceutical sector.

In a decision of December 6, 2018, the General Court of the European Union concludes that under the personal liability principle, the seller of assets or shares, although it continues to exist legally

Commentaire de l'arrêt Cass. com., 25 sept. 2024, n° 23‑13.067, publié au Bulletin, par Virginie Viallard, associée en droit de la concurrence, dans la revue Lamy Concurrence.

Aymeric de Moncuit, "Demain les aides d'État ?" in Laurence Idot Liber Amicorum - Concurrence et Europe, Volume 1, sous la direction de C. Lemaire et F. Martucci), Concurrences Paris, 2022.

Par un arrêt du 18 septembre 2019, la Cour de cassation est venue rappeler que, s'il résulte nécessairement d'actes de dénigrement constitutifs de concurrence déloyale un trouble commercial, ...