Elise Provost is Adviser to the General Rapporteur and Head of the sustainable development network. She is a qualified French lawyer. She received her PhD from Sorbonne University and University of Liege. Her research interest mainly lies in competition law, sector-specific regulation and sustainability. Elise studied law and business administration at Sorbonne University and Queen Mary College, and worked previously as a lawyer at Paris and Brussels law firms.
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In an opinion issued seven months after the law entered into force, the French Competition Authority pointed out that some practices could give rise to anticompetitive issues: the betting right agreements signed between operators and sport event organizers should be regulated to ensure a fair (...)
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The Court of Appeal ruled on 23 September 2010 in the Orange Caraïbe case. It mainly upheld the findings of the French Competition Authority. Nonetheless, ruling out the applicability of Article 101 and 102 on doubtful grounds, it also quashed the decision insofar it found a margin squeeze in (...)
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Further to a long-lasting public consultation, alongside the European Commission analysis on the appropriate fibre lines’ regulation, ARCEP, (the National Regulatory Authority - NRA) adopted a decision and a recommendation on the access obligations imposed on undertakings deploying in-building (...)
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Introduction An unlawful, abusive, margin squeeze typically occurs where a vertically integrated firm active in two related upstream and downstream markets supplies the upstream input to its downstream rivals, and charges prices that curtail the latter’s ability to exercise an effective (...)
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The French Supreme Court decided a margin squeeze case in the telecom sector after long proceedings and ten years after an undertakings’ association filed its complaint. In this case, the French branch of the European Telecom and Networks Association (ETNA) complained before the French (...)
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The Conseil de la concurrence considered that the agreements entered into between Orange and Apple were likely to introduce further rigidity, to increase consumer captivity due to smartphones attraction and, through the implementation of a differentiation strategy, to reduce competition in a (...)
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Considering that the criterion of indispensability to achieve the objectives of the regulation was not satisfied, the French regulator rejected the France Télécom’s complaint based on the refusal of the cable operator to provide it with information on its wholesale access offer. The French (...)
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The need to integrate sustainability considerations into all modern competition policies is more important than ever in the light of three factors: the effects of climate change becoming ever more apparent; inadequate policy and regulatory responses; and growing evidence that many businesses (...)
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Contents: Does welfare include the green factor? Integration of sustainability into competition law , Gönenç Gürkaynak, Founding Partner, ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law, Istanbul, Member of Faculty, Bilkent University Faculty of Law, and Bilgi University Faculty of Law Competition policy (...)
