
Bruno Lasserre
Bruno Lasserre, is a Conseiller d’Etat (councillor of State) and former French Competition Authority President. He joined the Conseil d’Etat - the French supreme administration court - in 1978 after the ENA. Between 1989 and 1997, he served as Director general of posts and telecoms. During this tenure, he developed and implemented a comprehensive reform of the regulatory framework of the French telecoms sector, culminating in full liberalisation and establishment of an independent regulatory authority. He returned to the Conseil d’Etat in 1998 as a full time member, where he served between 2001 and 2004 as Deputy chairman of the litigation chamber. After serving as member of the French Conseil de la concurrence (1998-2004), and then as President of the institution (2004-2009), he pushed through a fundamental reform that transformed it into the Autorité de la concurrence, in charge of merger review and competition advocacy in addition to antitrust. He chaired the Autorité from 2009 to 2016. He is also a member of the Commission for the Liberation of French Growth.
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This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)
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Bruno Lasserre, former French Competition Authority’s President, assesses his experience in competition regulation, the evolution of this law and its upcoming challenges. Interview conducted by Christophe Lemaire, Partner Ashurst, Associate professor Sorbonne Law School. La concurrence : quand (...)
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L’innovation déplace aujourd’hui les positions établies d’un nombre croissant d’entreprises et d’industries. Les qualificatifs ne manquent pas pour souligner la puissance de ce phénomène : innovation drastique, innovation déstabilisante, innovation perturbatrice, innovation radicale, innovation de (...)
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Recent years have seen the spread of free services, in particular in the digital area, whose effects on competition are not univocal. The competitive analysis of the provision of free goods and/or services, in particular when they are offered by companies holding a significant market power, is (...)
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This first roundtable of the “New frontiers of Antitrust” conference, Paris, 15 June 2015, was dedicated to the commitment decisions as « tool of choice or poison » for antitrust enforcement. After an introduction of Bruno Lasserre, President of the French Competition Authority describing the (...)
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Faced with new challenges in the context of a global bout of consolidation, competition authorities adapt their competitive assessments and their approaches to remedies and monitoring, in order to ensure both effective merger control and innovative and pragmatic solutions, when these are called (...)
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Platform regulation means adapting general laws to the digitalisation of the economy, whether general law concerns consumer protection, contracts between commercial partners, competition or data protection, rather than extending telecom rules which should on the contrary only apply to networks (...)
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While in the first decade of its existence, the ECN managed to prove its indeniable success through reaching its initial objectives of coherence and convergence, it is important for the following years to be an opportunity to go even further. The ECN still has to deepen the link between the (...)
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This collection of articles broaches the sensitive topic regarding exchange of confidential information in private competition law enforcement. Issues deriving from this subject were tackled at the roundtable moderated by the President of the EU General Court, M. Marc Jaeger, on the occasion (...)
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This third roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust” (Paris, 21 February 2014) was dedicated to “European Competition Network 10 years after & EC Regulation 1/2003: Can cooperation be extended to merger control and advocacy?”. The objectives for the authors of this roundtable (...)
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Les autorités de concurrence de l’Union européenne se sont attachées à délivrer un message clair de dissuasion dans le cadre de la lutte contre les cartels, résistant aux appels à des exemptions sectorielles, tout en veillant à ce que la politique de concurrence reste attentive aux nouvelles stratégies (...)
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This second roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust” (Paris, 22th of February 2013) was dedicated to « Personal data: Will competition law collide with privacy?». Bruno Lasserre author of the first contribution and President of the French Competition Authority provides us with the (...)
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This foreword is an In Memoriam of Mrs. Marie-Dominique Hagelsteen. « Elle vient à peine de nous quitter et nous prenons déjà conscience de la place qu’elle occupait parmi nous, de l’empreinte qu’elle laisse, de l’exemple qu’elle nous donne ». C’est à Marie-Dominique Hagelsteen que chacun pensait, avec (...)
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More than three years after the entry into force of the LME, which transferred to the Autorité de la Concurrence the responsibility of merger control, a progress report is needed. A balanced and pragmatic practice has emerged, but the Autorité also demonstrated viligance regarding compliance with (...)
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As early as 1986, it appeared necessary to endow the French Competition Authority with the power to remedy situations of urgency and to restore quickly the conditions of competition on the merits. This article presents the pioneering role played by the French Competition Authority in the use of (...)
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This first roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust”, Paris, 10 February 2012, was dedicated to the compliance programs and how efficient are they really. In the first paper, President Lasserre shares the experiment of the French Competition Authority in this area. Cecilio Madero (...)
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This fourth roundtable of the conference "New frontiers of Antitrust", Paris, 11 February 2011, is dedicated to the procedural fairness. In the first contribution, Nils Wahl, Judge of the General Court of the European Union examines the judge’s role in the competition proceedings. In the second (...)
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Prosecuting Cartels in France and in Germany, Introductory papers : The Bundeskartellamt’s New Organization and Policies Andreas MUNDT President of the Bundeskartellamt 1. In an increasingly international environment where it is standard practice for businesses to operate not in several (...)
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The second part of the article on the Autorité’s first year of activity comes back on antitrust enforcement and on a few general issues. The past year has seen the Autorité implement its new power of market surveillance, which is the last step of a decade of modernization undertaken by the (...)
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The Act of Economic Modernization of 4 August 2008 has deeply modernized the French competition enforcement framework. The current article, published in two parts, makes a first assessment of the work done during the first year of activity of the new Autorité de la concurrence. It comes back on (...)
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Marie-Dominique HAGELSTEEN La première table ronde intitulée « politique de concurrence et autres politiques publiques : comment les concilier lors de l’élaboration des lois ? » aborde un thème original et relativement peu développé, celui des relations entre la politique de concurrence et les autres (...)
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Sector inquiries: Complements or substitutes for antitrust enforcement? General introduction Frédéric JENNY President, OECD Competition Committee President of the International board of the Review Concurrences Professor, Co-Director of the Centre Européen de Droit et d’Economie, ESSEC, Paris (...)
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Depuis sa création en 2004, la revue Concurrences organise un colloque. Les thèmes abordés ont naturellement été variés : de l’adaptation du système français au règlement n° 1/2003 à la place de la concurrence dans le traité de Lisbonne en passant par les questions de banque et de finance et la réforme (...)
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Considering the important number of contributions, the papers of this conference are reproduced in the pdf version attached only. Please note that these papers are also freely available for non-subscribers at the "Conference" section of the (...)
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INSTITUTIONNEL 1. Pourriez-vous commencer par rappeler quels sont les principaux changements en termes de pouvoirs du Président et du Collège ? Qu’attendez-vous de ces changements ? 2. La réforme rend obsolète la Charte de coopération conclue entre la DGCCRF et le Conseil de la concurrence en 2005. (...)
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Présentation Laurence Idot Professeur, Universtité Paris II, Collège européen Directeur du Comité scientifique de Concurrences 1. C’est en qualité de responsable du comité scientifique de la revue Concurrences qu’il m’a été demandé de faire la présentation de cette matinée. J’avoue avoir en partie (...)
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The settlement procedure, introduced in French antitrust law in 2001, is a key component of the enforcement toolbox of the Conseil de la concurrence. While sharing some aspects with leniency, and others with commitments, it has its own logic, aimed at accelerating and simplifying procedures on (...)
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On the 15th of January, the Bundeskartellamt celebrated its fiftieth anniversary of enforcement of the German Act against Restraints on competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen, known as the “GWB”). Some 600 guests joined this landmark celebration, which took place in Bonn. The number (...)
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Introduction: In the opening speech at the second French German day of competition, Dr. Ulf Böge, president of the Bundeskartellamt (or German competition authority) insisted on the state of exchanges and on the cooperation between the two French competition authorities. Mr. Bruno Lasserre, (...)
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Bruno Lasserre presents David Bosco’s work on exclusivity obligation. It advocates more flexible antitrust authorities, therefore greater freedom for players to choose between two models of exchange organization, exclusivity or free interplay of supply and demand. Both these organization models (...)
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Bruno LASSERRE, Président du Conseil de la concurrence Après une année de fonctionnement, le Président du Conseil de la concurrence dresse un premier bilan de l’appartenance de l’autorité de concurrence française au Réseau européen de concurrence : «Le Conseil de la concurrence dans le réseau (...)
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L’entrée en vigueur le 1er mai 2004 du règlement n° 1/2003 entraîne de profonds changements pour les autorités nationales de concurrence. Cet article fait le point sur ces changements, à la veille de la publication de l’ordonnance devant transcrire le nouvel état du droit positif I. La (...)