Thierry Dahan

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. Créé à la fin des années 1980 au sein de la Direction de la Prévision, le séminaire Philippe Nasse s’est d’abord appelé « (...)

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 (...)

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, (...)

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 (...)

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, (...)

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 (...)