Parliament, European; of the European Union, Council

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Business secrets

According to article 2 of the Directive (EU) 2016/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against their unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure : "‘trade secret’ means information which meets all of the following requirements: (a) it is secret in the sense that it is not, as a body or in the precise configuration and assembly of its components, generally known among or readily accessible to persons within the circles that normally deal with the kind of information in question; (b) it has commercial value because it is secret; (c) it has been subject to reasonable steps under the circumstances, by the person lawfully in control of the information, to keep it secret" © European Parliament and Council of the European Union

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US Federal Trade Commission The US FTC clears merger of prosthetic limbs manufacturers, subject to divestment of myoelectric elbow business (Össur Hf / College Park Industries)

7 April 2020

FTC Imposes Conditions on Össur Hf’s Acquisition of College Park Industries, Inc.* Conditions to remedy competition loss in the U.S. market for myoelectric elbows Össur Hf and College Park Industries, Inc., both makers of prosthetic limbs, have agreed to divest College Park’s myoelectric elbow (...)

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20 March 2020

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Christophe Lemaire, Adèle Azzi Business secrets: The French Administrative Supreme Court declines jurisdiction to deal with an appeal against a decision of the French Competition Authority to include, within its interim measures decision, information that has benefited from the protection granted to business secrets (Google)

20 March 2020

La période est décidément riche s’agissant du contentieux entourant la protection du secret des affaires des entreprises. Après les deux arrêts de la Cour de cassation du 29 janvier 2020 (voir ci-dessus) statuant sur des décisions du Rapporteur Général, c’est ici le Conseil d’État qui est appelé à se (...)

Alain Ronzano Business secret: The French Supreme Court requires the Authority’s general rapporteur to give concrete reasons for the lifting of the protection granted under business secret (General Import)

29 January 2020

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Jean-Michel Vertut Business confidentiality: The French Supreme Civil Court provides clarifications on the regime of business confidentiality and on the decommissioning of documents under this protection (Randstad)

29 January 2020

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11 December 2019

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24 June 2019

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Peter L’Ecluse The Paris Court of Appeal delivers the first judgement on FRAND terms and applies the French legislation implementing the trade secrets directive (Conversant / LG)

16 April 2019

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10 December 2018

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13 September 2018

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13 September 2018

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19 June 2018

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12 June 2018

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Man Mohan Sharma The Indian Competition Authority opens investigation into abuse of dominance by a diversified textiles manufacturer in the market for Viscose Staple Fibre (Grasim Industries)

16 May 2018

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14 December 2017

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September 2017

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26 July 2017

In its confirmatory ruling issued on 26 July 2017, the EU Court of Justice (hereafter “the Court”) upheld the EU General Court ruling of 15 July 2015 which had dismissed AGC Glass group’s action against the Commission’s decision rejecting their request for confidential treatment of certain (...)

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5 May 2017

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16 March 2017

On 16 March 2017 the Polish Competition Authority (Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów, the “PCA”) issued guidelines on the request to limit the right of access to the case files (full name: “Information on the manner of submitting the request to limit the right of access to the case (...)

Alain Ronzano Confidential information: The Court of Justice of the European Union allows the Commision to publish information from the documents provided by an undertaking seeking leniency excluding verbatim quotations from the statement made by a leniency applicant or any references to the source of the information (Evonik Degussa)

14 March 2017

Le 14 mars 2017, la Cour de justice de l’Union a rendu son arrêt dans l’affaire C-162/15 (Evonik Degussa GmbH contre Commission européenne). Même si la Cour y fait partiellement droit à la demande de la requérante en accueillant le premier moyen de son pourvoi et en annulant en conséquence, et (...)

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February 2017

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2 February 2017

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18 November 2016

Dominique Loyer-Bouez, des Éditions Francis Lefebvre, me signale l’adoption d’un « nouveau » texte dans le champ du droit de la concurrence : il s’agit de l’article 96 de la loi n° 2016-1547 du 18 novembre 2016 de modernisation de la justice du XXIe siècle parue au JO n° 0269 du 19 novembre 2016. (...)

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18 November 2016

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Christophe Lemaire, Sarah Chikh Removal of business secrets: The French Supreme Court confirms the limited rights of the plaintiff concerning the access to documents covered by business secrets and the appeals against the decisions on the protection of business secrets (Orange)

4 October 2016

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Man Mohan Sharma The Indian Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) clarifies its jurisdiction only covers appeals against the Indian Competition Authority which fall under Section 53A of the Competition Act (TPM Consultants)

4 July 2016

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15 July 2015

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4 June 2015

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12 May 2015

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11 March 2015

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6 March 2015

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28 January 2015

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28 January 2015

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21 January 2015

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10 October 2014

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10 October 2014

Par une décision importante rendue le 10 octobre 2014, quoiqu’aux conséquences largement imprévisibles, le Conseil d’État vient de faire voler en éclats le délicat agencement du mécanisme régi par l’article R. 464-29 du code de commerce de recours contre les décisions du rapporteur général de l’Autorité (...)

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December 2014

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December 2014

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25 September 2014

Par décision n° 14-D-10 du 25 septembre 2014, l’Autorité de la concurrence vient de rejeter une demande de mesures conservatoires introduite, accessoirement à sa saisine au fond, par Orange, l’opérateur historique sollicitant la suspension de l’accord de mutualisation d’une partie de leurs réseaux (...)

Alain Ronzano Access to documents: The General Court of the European Union sanctions the Commission for refusing access to documents without demonstrating how they would undermine its decision-making process or commercial interests of a third party (MasterCard)

9 September 2014

Par arrêt rendu le 9 septembre 2014 dans l’affaire T-516/11 (MasterCard, Inc. e.a. contre Commission européenne), le Tribunal de l’Union a prononcé l’annulation de la décision de la Commission européenne du 12 juillet 2011 refusant d’accorder à MasterCard, Inc., MasterCard International, Inc. et (...)

Glossary

A

Absolute territorial protection • Abuse of dominant position • Abuse of economic dependence • Access to essential facility • Access to information • Access to the file • Agency agreement • Agent • Agreement (notion) • Amicus curiae • Ancillary restraints • Annulment • Anticompetitive objet or effect • Anticompetitive practices • Applicable law • Arbitration

B

Barriers to entry • Bid rigging • Block exemption (Regulation) • Boycott • Brand competition • Burden of proof • Business secrets • Buyer power

C

Cartel • Clearance phase I (merger) • Clearance phase II (merger) • Collecting society • Collective dominance • Collective redress (class action) • Competence • Competition policy • Competition policy • Complaint • Compliance programme • Compulsory license • Concerted practices • Concession • Concurrent jurisdiction • Consumers protection • Consumers’ associations • Control (change) • Control (notion) • Cooperation Agreement • Cooperation between competition authorities • Coordinated effects • Copyright • Corporate group • Corruption • Cost-based access • Criminal sanctions • Cross subsidisation

D

Damages • Dawn raids • De minimis notice • Direct effect • Discriminatory practices • Distribution agreement • Dominance (notion)

E

ECHR • Economic analysis • Economic efficiency • Effect on trade between Member States • Effective judicial protection • Environmental protection • Essential facility • European Competition Network (ECN) • Excess prices • Exchanges of information • Exclusive distribution • Exclusive purchasing agreement • Exclusive right (Art. 106 TFEU) • Exclusivity clause • Exhaustion • Extra-territoriality

F

Failing firm defence • Fine • Fine mitigating • Foreign direct investment (FDI) • Franchising • FRAND

G

Geographic market • Group purchasing organization • Gun jumping

H

Hard core restrictions • Horizontal agreement

I

Individual exemption • Intellectual property right • Interim measures • International competition network (ICN) • Investigations / inquiries • Investigations/ inquiries

J

Joint control • Joint venture • Judicial review

L

Legal privilege • Leniency • Licensing • Limitation period • Low prices

M

Mandatary (distribution) • Margin squeeze • Market economy investor • Market power • Market share • Media pluralism • Merger (notion) • Merger (prohibition) • Merger (withdrawal) • Minority shareholdings

N

Ne bis in idem • Non-competition clause • Notification • Nullity

O

Oligopoly

P

Parallel imports (parallel trade) • Passing-on • Pay-for-delay • Periodic penalty payment • Personal data • Predatory pricing • Preliminary ruling (Art. 267 TFUE) • Price discrimination • Price-fixing agreement • Prices • Principle of effectiveness • Principle of equal treatment • Principle of equivalence • Principle of proportionnality • Private enforcement • Privatization • Procedural autonomy • Professional association • Public procurement • Public undertaking

R

Referral (merger) • Refusal to deal • Regulated prices • Relevant market • Remedies (antitrust) • Request for information • Resale price maintenance (RPM) • Resale-below-cost • Right against self-incrimination • Rights of defence • Rule of reason

S

Sector inquiry • Selective distribution • Services of general economic interest • Single branding • Sole control • Spill-over effects • Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) • State action defense • State aid (compatibility) • State aid (existing aid) • State aid (notification) • State aid (notion) • State aid (recovery) • State aid (tax ruling) • State aid (unlawful aid) • State measure • Sudden break of established business relationships

T

Test SIEC (merger) • Test SLC (merger) • Transfer of technology • Transfer pricing • Trustee (mergers) • Turnover threshold (merger) • Tying or tied selling

U

Undertaking (notion) • Unfair competition • Universal service

V

Vertical agreement • Vertical restraints (or restrictions)