Jean-Philippe Christienne (born in 1968) is graduated in Law (Paris-II) and History (Paris-IV). He used to be a French administrative judge (1999-2015) and has got a eighteen years’ experience as legal secretary, both in the Court of Justice of the European Union (2007-2008 and since 2020) and in the General Court of the European Union (2003-2007 and 2009-2020). He had been Technical Advisor in the Cabinet of the French Minister of Economy, Mrs Lagarde (2009). He is specialized in Competition Law and Taxation Law.
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The EU judicial review of the Commission’s decisions generates an abundant case law. This Trends aims to clarify the major difficulties that arise from the concept of "unlimited jurisdiction" and that manifest themselves both at the level of the control standard to which the Commission’s (...)
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Much has been written in the first two commentaries on the Esso Société anonyme française and Others v Commission and Sasol and Others v Commission judgments, which is dealt with in the RWE and RWE Dea v Commission judgment. The references mentioned in those comments will enable the reader to (...)
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A marvellous illustration of the difficulty, for the jurist, to overcome the fluctuating capital entanglement of companies, the case law on the imputability to the parent company of the infringement committed by its subsidiary or subsidiaries has nevertheless known its moments of clarity: the (...)
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Base oils, of which slack wax is one of the by-products, are produced from crude oil and are used in the manufacture of paraffin waxes. Paraffin wax is also sold as such to end customers, such as particleboard producers. The markets for slack wax and paraffin waxes have been investigated by the (...)
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The Commission adopted on 25 June 2014 its 14th settlement decision since the introduction of settlement proceedings by Commission Regulation (EC) No 622/2008 of 30 June 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 773/2004 as regards the conduct of settlement proceedings in cartel cases (OJ 2008 L 171, p. (...)
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Deltafina SpA’s main activities are the first processing of raw tobacco and the marketing of processed tobacco. Following an investigation carried out in 2001, the Commission found that there was a cartel between processors of raw tobacco on the Italian market. In 2002, Deltafina applied to the (...)
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This judgment is the subject of a detailed commentary in the "Proceedings" section of the Review.to which it is therefore referred. Suffice it to state here that, following the Opinion of Advocate General Kokott, who considered that it would be contrary to the effectiveness of Article 101 TFEU (...)
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Commission Decision C (2005) 4634 final of 30 November 2005 in the industrial bags cartel was the subject of an action by Armando Álvarez, which was dismissed by the Court of First Instance (Trib. UE 16 November 2011, Álvarez v Commission, T 78/06). That company had lodged an appeal, which has (...)
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The administration of proof in EU competition law is constantly oscillating between a quest for objectivity, based on the concept of the burden of proof (see our commentary on the Reagens decision in this issue of the Review), and a more subjective logic, inherited from the common law (...)
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The Reagens judgment bears witness in many respects to the sharpness of the view taken by the Court of First Instance of the European Union of the conduct which the Commission considers to constitute cartels, both in terms of the review of legality which it is vested with and of its powers of (...)
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