Juliette Vanard, is a Senior Legal Counsel at PPG Industrial Coating Before she was lawyer at the Courtois Lebel’s Paris office. She has a Master in Business Law (DEA) and an other one in Competition, Distribution and Industrial Property Law (DESS) (post-graduate studies). She has also achieved in 2009 a Ph.D. on “Distribution networks and internet”. She started his career in 2006 as an associate at Courtois Lebel and has been a member of the AFEC (French Competition Law association) since 2008.
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Description of the impugned case The present case deals with the commercial practices carried out by the optician Krys through its exclusive distribution network. Investigations have showed that Krys has led national promotion campaigns where prices were indicated has “generally applied” by the (...)
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Description of the impugned case ITM manages a supermarkets’ network, mostly with franchisees. ITM has published in France during 1990 and 1991 a few millions of catalogues called “L’argus de la distribution” including the prices of washing powders. It also results from the investigations that (...)
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Description of the impugned case The present case deals with Bondai’s price maintenance system for its video game console and software (principally the Nintendo one) in France in 1989. Investigations have showed that Bondai has regularly addressed recommended prices to its distributors by (...)
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Description of the impugned case In the present case, Moulinex, Calor and Seb had implemented the following commercial policy : discounts for trade cooperation are granted at the end of the year only i) if retailers have not infringed French prohibition on resale at a below-cost price and ii) (...)
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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 (...)
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