Emily Xueref-Poviac

On 12 March 2019 the French Competition Authority (the Authority) adopted Decision 19-DCC-42 authorising the acquisition of joint control of Bernard Participations by Emil Fray Motors France and Bernard Participations. This operation, initially notified to the Commission (’Commission’) and (...)

Bolstered by the Conseil d’État’s rejection of Fnac-Darty’s appeals against the decisions of the Chairman of the French Competition Authority on 26 July 2018, the Authority sanctioned this economic operator the next day in a plenary session, in the amount of 20 million euros for failure to comply (...)

On 27 July 2016, after an in-depth analysis, the French Competition Authority authorised the acquisition of Darty by the Fnac group (Competition AuthorityDecision No. 16-DCC-111 of 27 July 2016).). In order to remedy the competition concerns identified, the Fnac group undertook to divest six (...)

The Act of 6 August 2015, known as the Macron Act, introduced the possibility, in merger cases, of a single-judge decision on commitment review decisions (provisions of the last sentence of Article L. 461-3 C. com.). A priority question of constitutionality was raised by Fnac Darty concerning (...)

They say it’s wrong to be right too soon. Thus, Advocate General Nils Wahl introduced the question of the scope of the obligation to suspend the implementation of a concentration prior to its clearance under Article 7(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of (...)

By its additional decision No. 17-DCC-103 of July 3, 2017 relating to the acquisition of exclusive control of Totalgaz SAS by UGI Bordeaux Holding SAS, the French Competition Authority drew the lessons from the judgment of the Conseil d’État of July 6, 2016, following the appeal filed by Primagaz (...)

By Decision M.7995, Deutsche Börse / London Stock Exchange, of 29 March 2017, the European Commission has declared the proposed concentration by which the two previously independent undertakings Deutsche Börse AG (³cDBAG³d) and London Stock Exchange Group plc (³cLSEG³d) intend to merge, within the (...)

On 3 February 2017, the Commission de Régulation de l’Energie (hereinafter "CRE") published its tenth monitoring report on "Compliance with the codes of good conduct and independence of electricity and natural gas network operators in 2015 and 2016". This tenth edition of the CRE report gives an (...)

Since August 2015, the Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes ("ARCEP") has the power to require mobile network operators to modify their network sharing contracts (roaming, network sharing, etc.), where this is necessary to achieve regulatory objectives. Many (...)

In July 2015, the Auvergne Region and the Rhône-Alpes Region, which since 1 January 2016 has formed a single Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region ("the Region"), referred a dispute with SNCF Réseau concerning the implementation of the procedure for allocating train path capacity to the Autorité de (...)

Following the agreement reached between the three EU institutions on 30 June 2015, formally adopted by the Council on 1 October 2015 and by the European Parliament on 27 October 2015, Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down measures on access to an (...)

In two judgments, 379579 and 384231 of October 9, 2015, the Conseil d’État returned to the conditions for sharing mobile networks and, in particular, to the execution of the national roaming contract entered into between Free Mobile ("Free") and Orange. On the one hand, it confirms that the (...)

Since its establishment in 2010, the Rail Regulatory Authority (hereinafter "ARAF") has been supporting the rail sector in its gradual opening up to competition. ARAF, whose mission is to contribute to the proper functioning of the public service and competitive activities for the benefit of (...)

On June 23, 2015, the Commission de Régulation de l’Energie (hereinafter "CRE") published a deliberation on the responses provided by Électricité Réseau Distribution France (hereinafter "ERDF"), Gaz Réseau Distribution France (hereinafter "GRDF") and their parent companies (respectively EDF and GDF (...)

CJEU, 22 Jan. 2015, T-Mobile Austria, Case C-282/13 In its judgment C-282/13 of 22 January 2015, the Court clarified, in response to a question referred for a preliminary ruling, the rights of competing undertakings in the event of a procedure for the transfer of telecommunications frequencies (...)

On November 25, 2014, the Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes (hereinafter "ARCEP") published a preliminary version of an observatory measuring the quality of the fixed Internet access service offered by electronic communications network operators in metropolitan (...)

Following a complaint filed by beIN Sports, accompanied by a request for precautionary measures, the French Competition Authority ordered, by decision no. 14-MC-01 of July 30, 2014, the suspension of the agreement entered into on January 14, 2014 by which the French National Rugby League (LNR) (...)

The Competition Authority has obtained from the Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) that it separate its online horse betting activity from that of its network of physical outlets under monopoly. The gambling sector has long been structured around monopolies, entrusted by law to La Française des Jeux (...)