Isabelle de Silva
French Competition Authority (Paris)
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Isabelle de Silva is the President of the French Competition Authority. Between 1999 and 2000, she worked at the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. From 2005 to 2008, she was Deputy Reporter at the Conseil constitutionnel (the French constitutional court). As government commissionner, she worked at the court of conflicts (2006-2009) and at the French Council of State (2000-2009). From 2009 to 2011, she was legal director of the French Ministry of ecology, sustainable development, transport and housing. After serving as member of the French regulatory Authority for press distribution (2012), and then as president of the Sixth subsection of the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State (2013), she became member of the French Competition Authority in 2014.
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Etienne Chantrel
French Competition Authority (Paris)
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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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On 8 November 2016 Altice-SFR was fined 80 million euros by the French Competition Authority for Gun jumping. This decision, first of a kind in Europe with regard to the fine’s amount and the practices at stake, has raised a debate amongst lawyers and companies towards its potential impact on (...)
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The purpose of this article is to share the lessons learned by the French Competition Authority (“FCA”) following its first in-depth investigation of a merger case involving two major online platforms. The FCA believes that anti-competitive risks arising out of Internet platform mergers must be (...)
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The question how mergers affect innovation has gained prominence in a number of recent merger cases. Accounting for the likely effects of mergers on innovation is difficult for a number of reasons, though. First of all, the relationship between market concentration and innovation is far from (...)
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Mrs. Isabelle de Silva, the new President of the French Competition Authority, explains in this interview the Authority’s role and its priorities in the french, european and international context. Interview conducted by Anne Wachsmann, Linklaters, Paris. A wind of renewal is blowing in France. (...)
