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Irène Luc

French Competition Authority (Paris)

Vice President

Irène Luc began as a judge in february 1990 in Tulle. In 1992, she joined the Ministry of Justice, where she remained until 1996, as a MACJ, in the Criminal Affairs Directorate, in the Economic and Financial Legislation Office. In 1996, she joined the French Competition Council, where she successively has hold the positions of case handler, European affairs officer, deputy case handler and head of the legal department until 2011, when the Council became the French Competition Authority. In 2011, she was assigned to the Paris Court of Appeal in Chambers 5-4 and 5-7, and became President of Chamber 5-4 of this Court in 2016. This chamber centralizes appeals concerning private actions in competition matters, as well as actions by the Minister of the Economy in matters of restrictive competition practices. Chamber 5-4 is also specialized in the distribution sector. She was appointed vice president of the French Competition Authority in April 2019. She practiced as an associate professor at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin from 2016 to 2019 and still teaches competition law there, as a lecturer. She has been a member of the CADA college from 2009 to 2019. She was also an expert at the CNC from 2000 to 2017 and has been teaching competition law at the Panthéon Assas faculty as a lecturer from 2008 to 2016. She wrote numerous articles, participated in many conferences and works on competition law and is a regular speaker at the ENM.

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36912 | Events

17 Oct 2023 Paris Distribution, Competition & Restrictive Practices See documents

21 Mar 2023 Paris Competition Investigations See documents

15 Feb 2023 Paris Competition law enforcement: Articulation public & private enforcement See documents

24 Nov 2022 Paris Distribution, Competition & Restrictive Practices See documents

11 May 2022 Paris The Vertical Block Exemption Regulation: Renewal or Revolution? See documents

30 Mar 2022 Paris Private Enforcement in the EU: 2022 State of play See documents

22 Mar 2022 Paris Competition Investigations See documents

6 Oct 2021 Paris New Concurrences Book Collection See documents

18 Nov 2020 Webinar Distribution, competition and unfair practices #2 : Trade negotiations, Significant imbalance & Closing discussion See documents

3 Feb 2020 Paris Urgency in antitrust cases: Can competition authorities intervene in time? See documents

15 May 2019 Paris Competition Investigations 2019 See documents

14 May 2019 Paris Antitrust fines : Is the sky the limit? See documents

13 Apr 2018 Paris Competition Investigations See documents

29 Mar 2018 Paris 3rd Private Enforcement Conference : The current state of private enforcement in the EU and France See documents

10 Mar 2017 Paris 2nd Private Enforcement Conference: Implementing the Damages Directive See documents

27 Feb 2017 Paris Competition Investigations 2017 See documents

18 Oct 2016 Paris New competition opportunities before ordinary courts - Competition Talks See documents

12 May 2016 Paris Competition enquiries 2016 See documents

12 Nov 2012 Paris Antitrust complaints: How to file? Where to file? See documents

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24465 Review

Emmanuelle Claudel, Nicolas Ferrier, Patrice Bougette, Frédéric Marty, Florence Ninane, Noemie Bomble, Irène Luc, Andreas Mundt, Olivier Guersent, Marion Carbo, Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson, Sima Ostrovsky, David-Julien dos Santos Goncalves Perspectives on the proposed reform of the Vertical Restraints Regulation and its Guidelines

September 2021 3658

The On-Topic aims to present a range of views on the European Commission’s proposed reform of the Vertical Restraints Regulation and its Guidelines. The contributors are representatives of the European Commission and competition authorities, practitioners, legal researchers and economists. (...)

Muriel Chagny, Nicolas Guérin, Irène Luc, Stanislas Martin, Anne Wachsmann The settlement procedure: Which enforcement in France? (Rendez-Vous de l’Autorité - Paris, October 2nd, 2018)

May 2019 676

Three years after the introduction of the settlement procedure into the tools available to the Competition Authority, the Authority was able to witness the success and the very strong development of this procedure, with companies increasingly soliciting its application. Before the adoption of (...)

Irène Luc, Vasil Savov Irène Luc (French Competition Authority): Actions for damages in antitrust cases - Situational analysis in France and in the European Union

May 2019 1672

Interview realised on the occasion of the 3rd edition of the annual conference on private enforcement organised by Concurrences Review, which took place on 28 March 2019 at the Paris Court of Appeal, in the panel dedicated to damages assessment with Etienne Pfister (French Competition (...)

Alain Gauvin, Irène Luc, Jean-Louis Fourgoux, Maurice Nussenbaum, Muriel Chagny What attractiveness of competition law at the date of reforms? (Competition’s interviews: New competitive opportunities before ordinary courts, October 18, 2016)

February 2017 649

The third edition of “Entretiens de la concurrence”, focusing on the new economic and legal opportunities before ordinary courts, aimed to emphasise on the specific nature and assets of those jurisdictions in competition law. Having to implement competition law rules in a globalized economy, (...)

Anne Outin-Adam, Claire Favre, Emmanuelle Claudel, Irène Luc The competition between institutions and civil actions : What articulation is optimal? (Antitrust damages actions in France and in Europe : Current situation and upcoming changements, Paris, 13 May 2014)

September 2014 892

Many institutions are interested in the civil actions of anticompetitive practices. The question of their optimal articulation is particularly sensitive and requires different answers depending on whether the civil action comes after the litigation before the Competition Authority or stands (...)

Irène Luc, Laure Gauthier The interlocutory procedure for the review of constitutionality

May 2012 764

Several provisions of the French competition law have been questioned under the interlocutory procedure for the review of constitutionality. Such requests have been made on several rules regarding dawn raids, the functional separation of the instruction body from the decision body within the (...)

David Bosco, Irène Luc, Jean-Christophe Roda, Pascal Cardonnel, Philippe Rincazaux Effect on trade between Member States and anticompetitive practices: A current issue

May 2011 4969

The papers gathered in this section provide various points of views on the notion of effect on commerce between member States in EU law, with some US point of view. Professor David Bosco in a brief introduction focuses on the evolution of the notion. According to Irene Luc, Chief legal officer (...)

Fabien Zivy, Irène Luc Procedural fairness before the French Competition Authority

December 2010 2921

The roundtables organized earlier this year by the Competition Committee of the OECD have shown that competition authorities share the common goal of ensuring the fairness of their procedures, but also that the legal and practical means of achieving this procedural fairness may legitimately (...)

Irène Luc, Juliette Vanard, Muriel Chagny Distribution and Internet : Results and prospects (Paris, 10th June 2010)

December 2010 2502

The European Commission has revised the Vertical Restraints Block Exemption Regulation and accompanying Guidelines, which were 10 years old, and adopted the new Regulation 330/2010 of 20 April 2010 and its Guidelines of 19 May 2010. These new texts take into account the development of the (...)

Angélique de Brousse, Guillaume Cerutti, Irène Luc, John Davies The new procedures for commitments and undertakings in competition cases

February 2005 5762

Commitments are at the centre of current national and Community competition law. The requirements of efficiency and speed combine with the new regulatory provisions to shape the evolution of this practice. Following the Community decisions, the first decisions could soon be taken internally. (...)