Irène Luc
French Competition Authority (Paris)
Vice President
Irène Luc began as a judge in february 1990 in Tulle. In 1992, she joined the Ministry of Justice, where she remained until 1996, as a MACJ, in the Criminal Affairs Directorate, in the Economic and Financial Legislation Office. In 1996, she joined the French Competition Council, where she successively has hold the positions of case handler, European affairs officer, deputy case handler and head of the legal department until 2011, when the Council became the French Competition Authority. In 2011, she was assigned to the Paris Court of Appeal in Chambers 5-4 and 5-7, and became President of Chamber 5-4 of this Court in 2016. This chamber centralizes appeals concerning private actions in competition matters, as well as actions by the Minister of the Economy in matters of restrictive competition practices. Chamber 5-4 is also specialized in the distribution sector. She was appointed vice president of the French Competition Authority in April 2019. She practiced as an associate professor at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin from 2016 to 2019 and still teaches competition law there, as a lecturer. She has been a member of the CADA college from 2009 to 2019. She was also an expert at the CNC from 2000 to 2017 and has been teaching competition law at the Panthéon Assas faculty as a lecturer from 2008 to 2016. She wrote numerous articles, participated in many conferences and works on competition law and is a regular speaker at the ENM.
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Aulne Abeille
French Competition Authority (Paris)
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French Competition Authority (Paris)
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French Competition Authority (Paris)
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The On-Topic aims to present a range of views on the European Commission’s proposed reform of the Vertical Restraints Regulation and its Guidelines. The contributors are representatives of the European Commission and competition authorities, practitioners, legal researchers and economists. After (...)
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Three years after the introduction of the settlement procedure into the tools available to the Competition Authority, the Authority was able to witness the success and the very strong development of this procedure, with companies increasingly soliciting its application. Before the adoption of (...)
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Interview realised on the occasion of the 3rd edition of the annual conference on private enforcement organised by Concurrences Review, which took place on 28 March 2019 at the Paris Court of Appeal, in the panel dedicated to damages assessment with Etienne Pfister (French Competition (...)
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The third edition of “Entretiens de la concurrence”, focusing on the new economic and legal opportunities before ordinary courts, aimed to emphasise on the specific nature and assets of those jurisdictions in competition law. Having to implement competition law rules in a globalized economy, the (...)
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Many institutions are interested in the civil actions of anticompetitive practices. The question of their optimal articulation is particularly sensitive and requires different answers depending on whether the civil action comes after the litigation before the Competition Authority or stands (...)
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Several provisions of the French competition law have been questioned under the interlocutory procedure for the review of constitutionality. Such requests have been made on several rules regarding dawn raids, the functional separation of the instruction body from the decision body within the (...)
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The papers gathered in this section provide various points of views on the notion of effect on commerce between member States in EU law, with some US point of view. Professor David Bosco in a brief introduction focuses on the evolution of the notion. According to Irene Luc, Chief legal officer (...)
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The roundtables organized earlier this year by the Competition Committee of the OECD have shown that competition authorities share the common goal of ensuring the fairness of their procedures, but also that the legal and practical means of achieving this procedural fairness may legitimately (...)
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The European Commission has revised the Vertical Restraints Block Exemption Regulation and accompanying Guidelines, which were 10 years old, and adopted the new Regulation 330/2010 of 20 April 2010 and its Guidelines of 19 May 2010. These new texts take into account the development of the (...)
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Commitments are at the centre of current national and Community competition law. The requirements of efficiency and speed combine with the new regulatory provisions to shape the evolution of this practice. Following the Community decisions, the first decisions could soon be taken internally. (...)
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A quoi sert la concurrence ?
Prologue « A quoi sert la concurrence ? » Telle est la question posée à 100 auteurs, question que se pose peut être encore, 10 ans après avoir lancé leur belle revue « Concurrences », l’équipe (...)
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30 September 2014
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A quoi sert la concurrence ?
See the "avant-propos" of Laurence Idot, Frédéric Jenny et Nicolas Charbit the Foreword of Martine Béhar-Touchais The full list of contributors and the Table of Contents 100 contributions for the (...)
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30 September 2014
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Dictionnaire de droit de la concurrence
Le Dictionnaire de droit de la concurrence, sous la direction scientifique du Professeur Muriel Chagny et Emmanuel Combe, rassemble plus de 250 définitions essentielles à la bonne compréhension du (...)
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