Thierry Dahan was vice President of the French Competition Authority. He was previously counsel in the Competition and EU law department of Ashurst. Thierry specialises in antitrust law, mergers and regulatory matters. A graduate of ENA, the French National School of Administration (graduate school for senior civil servants and officials), Thierry joined the Cour des Comptes (French court of audit) in 1991. He was appointed General Director for Culture and Sport for the City of Lyon in 1996, under the mandate of former French Prime Minister and presidential candidate Raymond Barre. In 1999, he joined the office of the French Secretary of State for Justice as Technical Adviser in charge of economic law and budgetary matters, working in particular on the preparation and monitoring of the competition and company law chapter of the new economic regulation law of 15 May 2001. In 2002, Thierry was appointed Rapporteur général of the Conseil de la concurrence (French Competition Authority), a post he held until February 2009 when he returned to the Cour des Comptes as Senior Magistrate. Thierry Dahan is an avocat at the Paris Bar.
ENA 1989-1991 (promotion Victor Hugo) Agrégation in physics (national high level postgraduate qualification) University of Aix-Marseille I, Degree in philosophy
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During the Nasse Seminar organized the 30th of September of 2016, Jérôme Philippe, Patrick Reyl talked about the infraction by object. This seminar was presented by Thierry Dahan. Created at the end of the 1980s within the Forecasting Department, the Philippe Nasse seminar was first called the (...)
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The Chinese competition authority (MOFCOM) is a new player on the international competition enforcement stage. Its growing influence raises new risks of diverging opinions on global agreements or mergers between the USA, the EU and China. This paper comments on this risks as illustrated by the (...)
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This set of articles explores the case of breach of commitments in competition proceedings. Recent cases, in France and abroad, have highlited issues that commitments monitoring may cause. Thierry Dahan and Christophe Lemaire express here the lawyers general point of view in antitrust law, (...)
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Both aspects of the grocery retail sector regulation, i.e. the rules on unfair behaviours and those governing the market structures have evolved in different ways since 2005. Further to the Competition Authority’s opinion of 17 December 2010 discussions moved toward the relevance of more (...)
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The two purposes of competition law - economic efficiency and consumer welfare - do not spontaneously converge on the real markets. Competiton law aims at protecting market equilibriums that can reconcile these goals. To establish the possible consequences of a given economic behavior, (...)
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Competition law aims at intervening on markets, not in order to limit their operation, but in order to make them work better. Competition law has thus developped on a somehow paradoxial basis: true trust in market economy leads to administrative intervention. This article aims at resolving this (...)
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At the beginning of 2009, you left the Competition Council after having served there as general rapporteur for almost seven years. What do you take away from this experience? You do not believe in the improvements brought about by the reforms, for example the new powers of the Authority? By (...)
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One of the most significant parameters that framed EC competition policy towards vertical restraints has been the importance of market integration in Europe. The recent saga of cases on parallel imports of pharmaceuticals brought under Articles 81 and 82 EC in national and Community courts (...)
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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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