Laurent Binet is a in-house counsel in competition law in a leading company in the energy sector. Prior to that, he was a case handler at the French competition authority from 2008 to 2014. He is also an associate professor at the University Paris-Sud and lectures competition law, electronic communications law and energy law in several universities and schools.
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The General Court of the European Union (’the General Court’), by two judgments delivered on 13 December 2018, partially annulled Decision C(2014) 7465 of the European Commission (’the Commission’) of 15 October 2014 which had jointly fined Slovak Telekom, the incumbent telecommunications operator (...)
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On June 8, 2018, the Paris Court of Appeal, following a referral from the French Supreme Court, confirmed in a judgment dated June 8, 2018, that Orange was ordered to pay compensation to SFR for the losses suffered as a result of practices of abuse of a dominant position implemented on the (...)
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In a ruling handed down on April 5, 20018 , the French Supreme Court rejected the appeals filed by Orange and SFR against the ruling handed down by the Paris Court of Appeal on May 19, 2016 in the "on net" abundance offers case. 183.1 million for having implemented anti-competitive practices (...)
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On April 5, 2018, the French Competition Authority published on its website the proposed commitments of the company Groupe Canal Plus ("GCP") aimed at responding to the competition concerns identified by the investigation services in the context of a complaint filed in 2014. Aston, a French (...)
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In that case, the company Saint Jean et Saint Vincent, to which the City of Paris entrusted the operation of the Musée de Montmartre, and the Association pour le Rayonnement du Musée de Montmartre, which is linked to the abovementioned company and whose purpose is "to contribute to the public (...)
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The Paris Court of Appeal ("the Court") confirmed, in a judgment dated October 12, 2017, Decision No. 15-D-10 of June 11, 2015 by which the French Competition Authority had sanctioned the company Télédiffusion de France ("TDF") in the amount of 5.6 million euros for distorting competition in the (...)
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By a decision of 27 September 2017, the Competition Authority ("the Authority") rejected the complaint, together with a request for interim measures, lodged by several professional casino associations against La Française des Jeux ("FDJ"). The plaintiffs complained that the FDJ had abused its (...)
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It is a reserved opinion, to say the least - in the words of the press release accompanying the opinion - that the Competition Authority (Authority) gave to the government on 22 November last concerning a draft decree and a draft order on the erasure of electricity consumption, and more (...)
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The Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes ("ARCEP") published on 9 January 2017 a short document to announce the orientations that its action will take with regard to the regulation of the fixed broadband and very high speed broadband markets ("the fixed markets") (...)
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On December 15, 2015, ARCEP adopted its decision to analyze the wholesale market for terrestrial hertzian audiovisual broadcasting services, as part of the fourth round of market analysis covering the period 2015-2018. For the record, the wholesale market for terrestrial audiovisual (...)
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On 13 November 2015, the European Commission announced that it had opened two separate in-depth investigations against France under Article 108(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ("TFEU"). These two investigations follow the Commission’s decision of 29 April 2015 to open (...)
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It is an unusually clear-cut, even severe, decision that ARCEP published this summer in the context of a settlement dispute between Free and Free Mobile ("the Free companies") and Orange. The former had referred to ARCEP, on the basis of Article L. 36-8 of the French Post and Electronic (...)
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This opinion, issued at the request of the Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des Postes ("ARCEP"), is part of the fourth round of market analyses and covers the period 2015-2018. It follows three previous opinions issued by the Competition Council and the Competition (...)
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On 15 July 2015, the European Commission presented its "summer package" of proposals aimed at offering a new deal to energy consumers, reorganising the European electricity market, updating energy labelling and reviewing the trading system. The Commission has therefore presented a legislative (...)
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The decision of 4 June 2015 concerns the commitments proposed by TDF in response to the competition concerns expressed by the investigation services. They considered that TDF was likely to have engaged in foreclosure practices resulting in the foreclosure of its competitors on the market for (...)
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On 29 April 2915, the European Commission announced the opening of the first sector inquiry under EU state aid rules. The inquiry will look at the measures implemented by Member States to ensure adequate supplies of electricity, known as ’capacity mechanisms’. By launching a sector inquiry, the (...)
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In its opinion of 20 June 2014, the French Competition Authority will give its opinion on the ex ante regulation mechanism envisaged by ARCEP for the retail and wholesale fixed telephony markets. In its opinion, the Authority notes, as it did in its previous opinions on the fixed telephony (...)
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It is a clear-cut opinion, to say the least, that the Competition Authority issued on April 15, 2014 on the draft analysis of the wholesale broadband and very high-speed broadband and capacity services markets submitted to it by ARCEP, as part of the fourth round of market analysis covering the (...)
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