Bruno Lasserre

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

Competition authorities in Europe have strived to preserve the stigma attached to cartel behavior, notwithstanding recurring calls to carve out an exception for a specific sector, while making sure competition policy is in tune with evolving commercial strategies and provides answers to (...)

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 (...)

This foreword is an In Memoriam of Mrs. Marie-Dominique Hagelsteen. "She has just left us and we are already aware of the place she occupied among us, the imprint she leaves, the example she gives us. It was Marie-Dominique Hagelsteen that everyone was thinking of, with emotion, as they (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

Marie-Dominique HAGELSTEEN The first round table was entitled "Competition policy and other public policies: how to reconcile them in the making of laws? "addresses an original and relatively undeveloped theme, that of the relationship between competition policy and other public policies. (...)

Enquêtes sectorielles : Complément ou substitut de l’action des autorités de concurrence ? Introduction générale 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, (...)

Since its creation in 2004, the journal Concurrences has been organizing a colloquium. The topics covered have naturally been varied: from the adaptation of the French system to Regulation 1/2003 to the place of competition in the Treaty of Lisbon, through banking and finance issues and the (...)

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 (...)

INSTITUTIONAL 1.Could you start by recalling the main changes in terms of the powers of the President and the College? What do you expect from these changes? 2.The reform renders obsolete the Cooperation Charter concluded between the DGCCRF and the Competition Council in 2005. Do you envisage (...)

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 (...)

Presentation Laurence Idot Professor, Universtité Paris II, European College Director of the Scientific Committee of Concurrences 1. It is in my capacity as head of the journalConcurrences’s scientific committee that I was asked to make this morning’s presentation. I confess that I failed in (...)

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 (...)

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, (...)

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 (...)

Bruno LASSERRE, Chairman of the Competition Council After one year of operation, the President of the Competition Council makes a first assessment of the membership of the French competition authority in the European Competition Network: "The Competition Council in the Community network" is a (...)

The entry into force on 1 May 2004 of Regulation 1/2003 brings about profound changes for national competition authorities. This article takes stock of these changes, on the eve of the publication of the ordinance that will transcribe the new state of positive law. I. Modernization: (...)