Suzanne Jude is a competition prosecutor at the Belgium competition authority since 2019. She was an associate in the Brussels office of Morrison & Foerster LLP. She is a member of the Litigation Group where her practice focuses on antitrust and competition law. She focuses on European and French competition law including merger control, behavioral, and litigation. Ms. Jude received a Ph.D. in European Competition Law from the Law School of Lille in 2006. She received a Master’s degree in Public Law from the Law School of Lille in 2000 and a postgraduate degree (DEA) in European Law from the Law School of Lille in 2001. Ms. Jude is a native speaker of French and speaks fluent English.
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On 7 July 2009, the French Supreme Court rebutted a case dated 6 May 2008 by the Paris Court of Appeal partially annulling a decision by the French National Competition Authority (the “NCA”) sanctioning two French cement manufacturers, Lafarge and Vicat, and their main distributors in Corsica (...)
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On 17 March 2009, the French Supreme Court confirmed a case dated 8 April 2008 in which the Paris Court of Appeal overruled a decision by the French NCA (the “NCA”) sanctioning GlaxoSmithLine (“GSK”) for predatory pricing in the market for sodic cefuroxime. Background This case does not (...)
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Concise Aut. opinion No. 10-A-18 of 27 September 2010 on a draft ARCEP decision on the deployment of optical fibre outside very densely populated areas On September 27, at ARCEP’s request, the French Competition Authority issued an opinion on the latter’s draft decision on the deployment of (...)
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Concordant Aut. opinion No. 10-A-08 of 17 May 2010 on the draft law on the new organisation of the electricity market On 14 April 2010, the Economic Affairs Committee of the National Assembly referred the draft law on the new organisation of the electricity market ("NOME") to the Competition (...)
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On February 11, 2010, the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) issued a decision on the guidelines for the implementation and evaluation of ERDF’s experiment on the development of low-voltage, low-power metering (online on its website: www.cre.fr). This is the Linky project, the name of (...)
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Order 2010-76 of 21 January 2010 merging the banking and insurance licensing and supervisory authorities was published in the OJ of 22 January 2010. The Autorité de contrôle prudentiel (ACP) is an independent administrative authority resulting from the merger of the Commission bancaire, the (...)
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The CRE has published the Observatory of electricity and gas markets for the 4th quarter of 2009 (online on its website: www.cre.fr). With regard to the opening of the residential retail market during the period September-December 2009, the CRE reports an acceleration in the electricity market (...)
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In a letter sent on 12 November to the President of the European Passenger Transport Operators’ Association (EPTO), the European Commission set out its interpretation of the obligation for national authorities to gradually open up to competition during the transitional period which started on (...)
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Aut. conc. opinion n° 09-A-54 of 3 November 2009 on the principles for drawing up separate accounts for gas sales to GDF end customers At the request of the CRE, the French Competition Authority issued Opinion No. 09-A-54 of 3 November 2009 on the principles for drawing up separate accounts (...)
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– Concise Aut. opinion No. 09-A-43 of 27 July 2009 on a draft decree on regulated tariffs for the sale of electricity Since the adoption of the Law of 10 February 2000, which initiated the process of opening up the electricity market, the regulation of regulated tariffs has been amended (...)
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– Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC, OJ L211, 14 August 2009, p. 55. Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 (...)
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Activity report of the National Energy Ombudsman 2009 For the second consecutive year, the National Energy Ombudsman submitted his activity report. Currently held by Mr Denis Merville, a former Member of Parliament, the post was instituted by Law 2006-1537 of 7 December 2006 and by (...)
