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Fleur Herrenschmidt

Novartis (Basel)

Head Legal Region Europe

Fleur Herrenschmidt is the head of legal affairs at Novartis. She was an associate in Allen & Overy and a specialist in competition matters. She joined the competition practice in January 2006. She has experience in the fields of antitrust law, distribution, and restrictive practices. She also assists clients in the framework of competition investigations. She has a particular expertise in the regulated sectors, and especially in the pharmaceutical and telecommunications sectors. LLM, London School of Economics (1995), Post Master’s degree in European Legal Studies (DESS), Paris X (1996), Master degree in European Law, College of Europe, Bruges (1997), Avocat à la Cour (2001)

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29664 Bulletin

Fleur Herrenschmidt, Olivier Fréget The French Competition Authority issues a landmark interim decision on competition between princeps and generics (Arrow / Schering-Plough)

11 December 2007 6789

By a decision of 11 December 2007, the Competition Council issued yet another decision concerning the (difficult) competition between princeps and generics at the time when the latter enter a market which becomes accessible upon expiry of the former’s intellectual property rights. Although this (...)

Fleur Herrenschmidt The German Federal Network Agency imposes uniform process for switching gas and electricity suppliers to facilitate effective competition in the energy market

31 August 2007 4540

Introduction In June 2005, the European Commission launched an inquiry into competition in gas and electricity markets. This enquiry responded to concerns voiced by consumers and new entrants in the sector about the development of wholesale gas and electricity markets and limited choice for (...)

Fleur Herrenschmidt, Olivier Fréget The French Competition Authority imposes price regulation on the electricity market through interim measures (Direct Energie / EDF)

28 June 2007 8896

On 28 June 2007, the Competition Council ordered interim measures against Electricité de France ("EDF"), imposing it to market base-load electricity to alternative suppliers at a price enabling them to effectively compete with the incumbent operator’s retail sales on the free market (i.e.: (...)

Fleur Herrenschmidt The German Network Agency imposes reinforced access to local loop (Deutsche Telekom)

27 June 2007 5151

1. Background reminder The EU Regulatory Framework in the telecommunication sector (framework resulting from the European Telecommunication Package, namely the Framework Directive 2002/21 and its accompanying directives and communications) imposes on national regulatory authorities (NRAs) that (...)

Fleur Herrenschmidt, Olivier Fréget The French Supreme Administrative Court annuls a State’s decision discriminating the reimbursement’s rate between princeps and generic drugs (GlaxoSmithKline)

11 June 2007 4288

1. The Regulatory Context: positive discrimination as a starting point and the TFR a possible end to it Sales of reimbursable medicines to consumers are heavily regulated in France, from the level of the pharmaceutical company manufacturing them all the way through to the ultimate individual (...)

6748 Review

Fleur Herrenschmidt, Olivier Fréget Lobbying and Competition Law

September 2006 6748

Both the efficiency and the legitimacy of sector-specific regulation rely on the guarantee that the relevant regulators have not been «captured» by those they are expected to regulate. The present article proceeds with a brief analysis, first, of the formal mechanisms that reduce the risks of (...)