Pierre Kirch
Paul Hastings (Paris)
Avocat à la Cour
Pierre Kirch is a partner with Paul Hastings, and divides his time between the firm’s offices in Paris and Brussels. His practice is devoted to the whole range of French and EU competition / antitrust law (including State aid), which he has practiced for almost 30 years now. He is a founding member of the Editorial Board of Concurrences.
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Dawning of a New Regulatory Era - the EU Digital Competition Revamp* “Digital regulation” is a legislative concept and trend which has grown exponentially in recent years and looks set to develop for many more years to come. On 5 July 2022, the day the European Parliament adopted the (...)
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Executive Summary: Earlier this year, the new EU Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (“New Block Exemption Regulation”) and the accompanying new Vertical Restraints Guidelines (“New Guidelines”) entered into force. Their scope of application covers all agreements between economic (...)
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Are the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and EU Competition policy inherently antithetical? Have these two policies been condemned to mutual misunderstanding ever since the entry into force of the Treaty of Rome? For some, the issue is clear: the agriculture industry should not be subject to (...)
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Introducing antitrust and consumers class action has been debatted since more than 20 years in France. This set of 6 articles from various authors suggest that 2008 may well be the right time. The State Secretary in charge of Industry and Consumers takes side in favour of such a reform. (...)
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Presentation Pierre Kirch 1. The Treaty of Lisbon refers to "free and undistorted" competition only in the preamble to Protocol No 6 on competition policy. We know that the protocols have the same legal value as the main body of the Treaty; indeed, these topics have already been discussed (...)
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Pursuant to Article 22 of the EC Merger Regulation on the control of concentration, a Member State can request the European Commission to examine a concentration that does not have a Community dimension. However, according to French authorities, the Minister of Economy can make such a request (...)
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QUESTIONS Dominique Voillemot, could you briefly retrace your journey? What are the circumstances that led you to specialise very early on in Community law and then in competition cases? Could you describe the problems or issues at stake in the first competition law cases in the 60s and 70s in (...)
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The so-called "Dutreil" French Law dated 2 August 2005 and its notice/circular dated 8 December 2005 have substantially changed the relationships between producers and distributors. These 5 contributions, including counsels, in house lawyers points of view and an article from an official from (...)
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