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Michel Ponsard

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Michel Ponsard works as a Partner at UGGC since 1998. He is a member of the Executive Committee of AFEC, a member of International Bar Association (IBA). Prior to that, we worked at Berlioz. He graduated from University Paris II and ULB.

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977 Bulletin

Michel Ponsard, Emilie Buhé The Moroccan Competition Authority publishes its first annual report since the adoption of the Moroccan competition law in 2014

14 May 2020 374

The Moroccan Competition Council has published, during the summer of 2020, its first annual report since the adoption of the new Moroccan competition law in 2014 and the reactivation of the Competition Council at the end of 2018. Indeed, as stated in a previous article published in the (...)

Michel Ponsard, Nizar Lajnef The EU Court of Justice specifies the regime of the quantitative selection criteria in a selective distribution system under the motors vehicle block exemption regulation (Auto 24 / Jaguar Land Rover)

14 June 2012 603

After a referral by the French Supreme Court (“Cour de cassation”) for a preliminary ruling on 29 March 2011, the CJEU provides interesting answers to the question of control of selection criteria in a quantitative selective distribution system. French case law has given rise to discussions (...)

12260 Review

Michel Ponsard, Ophélie Sommé Morocco: The evolution of the merger control regime - An overview of the new procedural framework and the Competition Council’s recent orientations

November 2023 464

Moroccan merger law has recently been amended, with the introduction of a number of new procedural rules, as well as new orientations from the Competition Council, which is now implementing its power to impose sanctions, notably in gun-jumping cases. 1. Since the adoption of Law No. 06-99 (...)

Emilie Buhé, Michel Ponsard Morocco: New guidance for the implementation of competition law compliance programs

May 2022 3070

The Moroccan Competition Council has just published a guide related to the implementation of competition law compliance programs in companies and professional organizations, which also contains a reminder of the applicable competition law rules and could therefore be considered the first (...)

Olivier Guersent, Thierry Boillot, Muriel Chagny, Jacques Derenne, Frederic Jenny, Michel Ponsard, Stéphanie Yon-Courtin Olivier Guersent (DG COMP): European competition policy in the context of crisis

November 2020 1045

A conversation with : Thierry Boillot Director of Competition, AFEC - AFJE, Paris Muriel Chagny Professor, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris-Saclay) and President, AFEC, Paris Jacques Derenne Partner, Sheppard Mullin, Brussels and Professor, University of Liège Frédéric (...)

Michel Ponsard, Emilie Buhé Morocco: The National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency of Marocco issues its first decision of sanction under the new competition law and heavily fine the incumbent operator (Maroc Telecom)

17 January 2020 608

In a decision dated January 17, 2020, the Moroccan telecommunications regulatory authority, the ANRT, imposed a very substantial penalty of MAD3 billion and MAD300 million (approximately ’310 million) on the incumbent operator Itissalat-Al-Magrib (hereinafter "Maroc Telecom") for having abused (...)

Anne-Sophie Choné-Grimaldi, Grégoire Toulouse, Michel Ponsard The scope of Regulation n°330/2010 (Caen, 4 October 2013)

February 2014 2769

This first roundtable of the conference held in Caen the 4th October 2013 was dedicated to the scope of the Regulation n°330/2010. In the first contribution, Ms Chroné-Grimaldi underlines that even when a practice does not affect trade between Member States, French Competition Authority and (...)

Jean-Patrice de La Laurencie, Joffrey Sigrist, Michaël Cousin, Michel Ponsard The regulation of commercial practices - A reform of the French law while waiting for the European law? (AFEC, Paris, 20 juin 2013)

September 2013 665

This article brings together contributions from the second panel of the AFEC’s General Assembly of 20 June 2013 in Paris dedicated to the regulation of commercial practices INTRODUCTION Jean-Patrice DE LAURENCIE Lawyer at the Paris Bar 1. It is an honour for which I thank the (...)

Dominique de Gramont, Jacqueline Riffault-Silk, Jean-Daniel Bretzner, Laurence Idot, Louis Martin, Marie-Hélène Huertas, Martine Behar-Touchais, Michel Ponsard, Muriel Chagny, Valérie Pironon, Yann Utzschneider Contractual practices and competition (Paris, October 25th 2010)

February 2011 3639

This article reproduces the opening papers delivered at the AFEC conference on contractual practices and competition law in Paris on October 25, 2010. According to the Professor Chagny, the examination of the links between contractual practices and competition law lato sensu reveals (...)