Étienne Bodéré studies at the Paris Bar School, and is an intern at Reinhart Marville Torre in Paris since June 2023. Intending to specialise himself in business litigation, he previously worked as an intern in the business litigation departments of Osborne Clarke and Racine, and at the Paris Court of Appeal, the General Court of the European Union and SUEZ.
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On September 7, 2023, the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la Concurrence) imposed penalties of 31,239,000 euros on five companies operating in the nuclear engineering, maintenance, dismantling and waste treatment services sector, for engaging in anti-competitive practices consisting (...)
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While the temporal scope of the Automotive Block Exemption Regulation ("ABER") was due to run out on May 31, 2023, on April 17 the European Commission extended it by five years - so that the ABER will apply until May 31, 2028. An update of the supplementary guidelines applicable to the (...)
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However, as the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation [(hereinafter "TTBER")] expires on April 30, 2026, the European Commission opened a public consultation on April 17 to determine the future of the TTBER, with all interested parties having until July 24, 2023 to submit their (...)
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Champagne, as we know, is drunk at exactly the right temperature and cannot be cut with anything - even more so, with no exclusive import rights, as the French Competition the Competition Authority in its decision n° 23-D-02 of March 8, 2023. By the decision under review, the Authority (...)
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Heat stabilizers had not inspired the Commission to take precisely lukewarm decisions; the European Union General Court takes the matter further with January 25, 2023(T-640/16 RENV, GEA Group). As a reminder, in a decision dated November 11, 2009 (case COMP/38589), the European Commission (...)
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On November 29, 2022, the European Commission announced that it had fined five companies €157 million for engaging in anti-competitive practices consisting of a cartel between six companies concerning the purchase price of styrene; the sixth company - INEOS - was granted full immunity by (...)
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However, as the consortia block exemption regulation expires on 25 April 2024, the European Commission launched a call for evidence on 9 August 2022 to determine the future of the consortia block exemption regulation. The Commission is evaluating the performance of the consortia exemption (...)
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However, as the Automotive Block Exemption Regulation ("ABER") expires on May 31, 2023, the European Commission launched a public consultation on July 6, 2022 to seek views on its plans to extend the ABER and to issue a communication updating its supplementary guidelines. The purpose is for (...)
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On March 30, 2022, the Union Court issued thirteen new judgments in the air cargo cartel case. As a reminder, Following the submission of leniency applications by Lufthansa and two of its subsidiaries on December 7, 2005 - which were granted immunity from fines - the European Commission (...)
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In a decision dated March 3, 2022, the French Competition Authority [hereinafter "the Authority"] imposed financial penalties on four companies for a total amount of 1,500,000 euros after having found the existence of a cartel between them consisting of the exchange of confidential information (...)
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On December 31, 2022, the European Commission approved the content of its revised draft regulation on research and development agreements [(hereinafter "R&D")], which will apply from January 1, 2023. As a reminder, the R&D Block Exemption Regulation renders Article 101(1) TFEU (...)
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As Regulation 1218/2010 on specialization agreements expires on December 31, 2022, the European Commission approved on March 1, 2010 the content of its draft revised block exemption regulation on specialization agreements which will succeed it as of January 1, 2023. The content of the recently (...)
