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3 Jun 2021 R

Market test: The French Competition Authority publishes the commitments made by a social network proposing to make access to advertising services for advertisers more transparent and less discriminatory (Facebook)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2021

On June 3, 2021, the French Competition Authority made public the proposed commitments made by Facebook regarding the conditions of access by advertising technology providers to its Facebook Marketing Partners (FMP) program, which optimizes advertising campaigns by offering advertisers the (...)

25 Mar 2021 R

Access to infrastructure: The Court of Justice of the European Union confines the standard of proof in the Bronner judgment requiring verification of the indispensability of access for competitors to the sole refusal of access (Slovak Telekom, Deutsche Telekom)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2021

On March 25, 2021, the Court of Justice of the Union delivered its judgments in C-152/19 (Deutsche Telekom AG v. European Commission) and C-165/19 (Slovak Telekom a.s. v. European Commission). By those judgments, the Court of Justice of the European Union dismisses the appeals and upholds the (...)

25 Mar 2021 R

Exclusionary abuse: The Court of Justice of the European Union dismisses a telecommunication company’s appeal against the judgment of the General Court of the European Union confirming the decision of the European Commission establishing its liability as parent company in a margin squeeze case implemented by its subsidiary (Deutsche Telekom)

Frédéric Marty • N° 2-2021 • pp. 86-88

In this judgment delivered in parallel with the judgment in the Slovak Telekom case, the Court of Justice rejects the various pleas put forward by Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of the Slovak incumbent, in its appeal against the judgment of the General Court of 13 December 2018 (Deutsche (...)

25 Mar 2021 R

Exclusionary abuse: The Court of Justice of the European Union dismisses the appeal brought by the Slovak incumbent telecommunications operator against a judgment of the General Court of the European Union confirming a decision of the European Commission fining it for a margin squeeze strategy (Slovak Telekom)

Frédéric Marty • N° 2-2021 • pp. 88-89

Simultaneously with the examination of Deutsche Telekom ’s appeal against the judgment of the General Court of 13 December 2018, which had upheld the European Commission’s decision of 15 October 2014, the Court of Justice is ruling on the appeal filed by Slovak Telekom. It will be recalled that (...)

18 Mar 2021 R

Abuse of dominant position: The French Competition Authority rejects the referral on the merits of the companies operating two establishments specialised in karaoke in private rooms (Singing Studio / Karafun)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2021

On March 18, 2021, the French Competition Authority issued a decision no. 21-d-08 in which it rejected, on the basis of Article L. 462-8 of the French Commercial Code, the companies Singing Studio, which operate two establishments specializing in private karaoke rooms, argued that the Karafun (...)

18 Mar 2021 R

Exclusionary abuse: The French Competition Authority rejects a referral relating to alleged discriminatory practices carried out by a vertically integrated operator on the karaoke market for lack of evidence (Singing Studio / Karafun)

Frédéric Marty • N° 2-2021 • pp. 96-97

The French Competition Authority rejects a referral on the merits from a karaoke hall operator who believes that he is the victim of an abuse of a dominant position by a vertically integrated competitor. The abuse was allegedly linked to a change in the conditions of access to the videos (...)

17 Mar 2021 R

Exclusionary abuse: The French Competition Authority rejects a request for interim measures in the online advertising sector but continues its investigation on the merits in order to ensure that the tracking consent mechanisms introduced by the structuring platform do not lead to self-preference (Interactive Advertising Bureau France, Mobile Marketing Association France, Union des Entreprises de Conseil et Achat Media et Syndicat des Régies Internet)

Frédéric Marty • N° 2-2021 • pp. 94-96

Associations of firms active in the mobile application installation advertising sector on iOS have referred the matter to the French Competition Authority for alleged abuse of dominant position byApple. These practices would result in the imposition of unfair trading conditions around the (...)

25 Feb 2021 R

Dominant position: The Court of Justice of the European Union rules that the Slovak incumbent telecommunications operator, condemned by the European Commission for abuse of a dominant position on the market for wholesale broadband access services, could also be sanctioned by the Slovak NCA for abuse on the wholesale and retail markets for telephone and dial-up broadband internet access services (Slovak Telekom)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2021

On 25 February 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered a judgment in Case C- 857/19 (Slovak Telekom a.s. v. Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky) which follows a reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Slovak Supreme Court. On 26 September 2005, (...)

25 Feb 2021 R

Jurisdiction: The Court of Justice of the European Union confirms the rules governing the relinquishment of jurisdiction by national courts in favour of the European Commission as regards the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU and the application of the ne bis in idem rule (Slovak Telekom / Protimonopolnỳ úrad Slovenskej republiky)

Frédéric Marty • N° 2-2021 • pp. 85-86

The Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic referred to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling a case brought by the competition authority against the incumbent telecommunications operator. Those proceedings were initiated on the basis of a margin squeeze strategy on the internet access (...)

24 Feb 2021 R

Abuse of economic dependence: The French Competition Authority again rejects the characterisation of an abuse of economic dependence and rejects the referral of the distributor for lack of evidence (Cartocad / Autodesk)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2021

On 3 March 2021, the Competition Authority made public a decision No. 21-D-04 adopted on 24 February 2021. about practices denounced in the publishing and professional software sales sector. In September 2020, Cartocad, a distributor of software products and related services on behalf of (...)

24 Feb 2021 R

Abuse of economic dependence: The French Competition Authority rejects for lack of evidence a complaint for abuse of economic dependence in the sector of publishing and sale of professional software (Cartocad)

Anne Wachsmann, Nicolas Zacharie • N° 2-2021 • p. 93

By a decision of February 24, 2021, the Competition Authority ["the Authority"] rejected for lack of evidence the referral of the company Cartocad ["Cartocad"] which considered that the company Autodesk ["Autodesk"] had committed an abuse of economic dependence against it. Autodesk is an (...)

18 Feb 2021 R

Predatory pricing: The French Competition Authority rejects a request for precautionary measures by an alternative supplier, but decides to continue its investigation to establish whether the dominant electricity supplier has engaged in predatory pricing in connection with the exit from regulated tariffs for sales to small non-residential customers (Plüm Énergie / EDF)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2021

On February 18, 2021, the Competition Authority issued a decision no. 21-d-03 in favour of which it rejects the application for interim measures submitted by Plüm Energie, an alternative electricity supplier, denouncing a predatory pricing practice allegedly implemented by EDF on the occasion of (...)

18 Feb 2021 R

Predatory prices: The French Competition Authority rejects a request for interim measures in the absence of serious harm to the general economy, to the sector concerned, to the interest of consumers or to the complainant company, but carries on the analysis on the merits for potential predatory pricing practices (Plüm Énergie)

Anne Wachsmann, Nicolas Zacharie • N° 2-2021 • p. 92

In a decision dated February 18, 2021, the Authority rejected a request for interim measures from Plüm Energie and Plüm Entreprises & Collectivités ["Plüm"] in connection with a complaint about predatory pricing practices by EDF concerning the supply of electricity to small non-residential (...)

16 Feb 2021 R

Excessive prices: The Paris Court of Appeal challenges companies of the same group ex officio in the Polynesian refrigerators case (Wane)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2021

Another new episode - the 9th - in the Polynesian refrigerator saga, and certainly not the last one... with, who knows, maybe a season 2 at the end... A quick reminder of the facts: as a result of the cassation, by judgment dated 4 June 2020, of the order of the first president dated 1 March (...)

10 Feb 2021 R

Excessive prices: The European Commission accepts and makes binding the commitments of one pharmaceutical company to reduce the prices of six anti-cancer drugs by 73% for ten years, and sends a strong signal to other pharmaceutical companies about excessive pricing practices (Aspen)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2021

See also, Law & Economics Webinar organised by Concurrences "Excessive prices in the pharmaceutical sector in the EU: The Aspen Decision", in partnership with Covington & Burling and CRA, with Miranda Cole (Partner, Covington & Burling), Raphaël de Coninck (Vice President, CRA), (...)

10 Feb 2021 R

Abus of dominant position: The Paris Commercial Court orders a search engine that abused its dominant position to pay damages of 1,270,000 euros to a telephone directory assistance company (Oxone Technologies / Google)

Alain Ronzano • N° 2-2021

On February 10, 2021, the 8th Chamber of the Paris Commercial Court issued a judgment. in which it finds that Google has committed several abuses of a dominant position, orders it to pay more than EUR 1 million in damages to a directory enquiry company and orders that that company’s access to (...)

10 Feb 2021 R

Abuse of dominant position: The Paris Commercial Court again sanctions an abuse of dominant position committed by the publisher of a search engine and operator of an online advertising service (Oxone Technologies / Google)

Muriel Chagny • N° 2-2021

There is still abuse (but still no economic dependence)! This could be in substance the summary of the judgment by which the Commercial Court, on 10 January 2021, once again punished an abuse of a dominant position committed by the publisher of a well-known search engine and operator of an (...)

10 Feb 2021 R

Excessive pricing: The European Commission accepts commitments of a company to reduce prices in cancer drug sector (Aspen)

Marie Cartapanis • N° 2-2021 • pp. 90-92

See also, Law & Economics Webinar organised by Concurrences "Excessive prices in the pharmaceutical sector in the EU: The Aspen Decision", in partnership with Covington & Burling and CRA, with Miranda Cole (Partner, Covington & Burling), Raphaël de Coninck (Vice President, CRA), (...)

16 Dec 2020 R

Proportionality: The General Court of the European Union confirms the absence of interest of the European Union in pursuing the examination of a complaint by a competitor of a roof window manufacturer, since the extent of the investigations necessary would be disproportionate to the limited likelihood of finding a breach of Article 102 TFEU (Fakro)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

On 16 December 2020, the Court of First Instance of the European Union delivered a judgment in Case T-515/18 (Fakro v Commission).. The applicant, Fakro sp. z o.o., is a Polish company which manufactures windows and roofing accessories. On 30 April 2007, the Commission opened an ex officio (...)

16 Dec 2020 R

Market test: The French Competition Authority publishes a request for review of the commitments made in 2014 by the incumbent railway operator, which is ahead of growing competition in the market for the distribution of train tickets (SNCF)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

On 17 December 2020, the Competition Authority made public a document from the SNCF for which the incumbent rail operator sets out the reasons why it is requesting to be relieved, in whole or in part, of four of the twelve commitments it has entered into in 2014 and which have been made binding (...)

25 Nov 2020 R

Abuse of dominant position: The Court of Justice of the European Union extends to festivals its permissive case-law allowing collecting societies to impose a scale of royalties calculated on the basis of gross receipts from the sale of admission tickets to discotheques and on the receipts from television broadcasts intended for the general public (SABAM / Weareone.World, Wecandance)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

On 25 November 2020, the Court of Justice of the Union delivered a judgment in case C-372/19 (SABAM).which follows the reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de l’entreprise d’Anvers (Antwerp Works Tribunal) concerning the remuneration charged to music festivals by a Belgian (...)

25 Nov 2020 R

Abuse of exploitation: The Court of Justice of the European Union specifies, in a preliminary ruling, the conditions for the admission of royalty scales applied by copyright collecting societies (SABAM / Weareone.World, Wecandance)

Frédéric Marty • N° 1-2021 • pp. 130-131

The scales of royalties applied by copyright collecting societies have already given rise to references for preliminary rulings before the Court of Justice on the basis of possible abuses of exploitation under Article 102 of the Treaty, in so far as they have de facto monopolies on the markets (...)

18 Nov 2020 R

Essential facility: The General Court of the European Union confirms the decision of the European Commission finding an abuse of a dominant position by the Lithuanian incumbent railway operator, but reduces the fine imposed (Lietuvos geležinkeliai)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

On 18 November 2020, the Court of First Instance of the European Union delivered a judgment in Case T-814/17 (Lietuvos geležinkeliai v Commission).. The case follows the action for annulment of the decision of 2 October 2017.The Commission imposed a fine of EUR 27 873 000 on Lietuvos (...)

18 Nov 2020 R

Barriers to entry: The General Court of the European Union upholds a decision of the European Commission in the case of the dismantling of a section of railway track in Lithuania to prevent the entry of a competitor (Lietuvos geležinkeliai)

Frédéric Marty • N° 1-2021 • pp. 131-134

The Court of First Instance dismisses an action brought by the Lithuanian incumbent rail operator against a Commission decision of 2 October 2017 (case AT.39813 Baltic Rail), which had sanctioned him for dismantling infrastructure between Lithuania and Latvia that obstructed a contract between (...)

10 Nov 2020 R

Abuse of dominant position: The European Commission indicated that an e-commerce platform systematically used non-public commercial data from independent sellers in its marketplace to promote the sale of its own products (Amazon)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

On 10 November 2020, the European Commission indicated that it had sent a Statement of Objections to Amazon, alleging that Amazon had systematically used non-public commercial data from independent sellers using its market place to promote the sale of its own products to consumers in (...)

28 Oct 2020 R

Environment: The French Competition Authority gives a reserved opinion on the draft decree introducing a tariff cap mechanism for access to non-hazardous waste storage facilities

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

On 29 October 2020, the Competition Authority made public an opinion n° 20-A-09 of 28 October 2020under the terms of which it issues a reserved opinion on the draft decree establishing a mechanism for capping the tariffs for access to non-hazardous waste storage facilities (ISDND), as instituted (...)

26 Oct 2020 R

Market test: The French Competition Authority rejects the proposed commitments aimed at making the formal licensing of the manufacture and marketing of gamepad compatible controllers more transparent and non-discriminatory, and refers the case back for further investigation (Sony)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

By a somewhat laconic press release dated October 26, 2020the Competition Authority announced that the College had decided not to accept and therefore not to make binding the commitments proposed by Sony a year ago, the same commitments which were aimed at making the formal licensing of the (...)

14 Oct 2020 R

Civil fault: The French Supreme Court confirms the existence of a civil fault consisting for the dominant operator in not having separated its masses of stakes in hard and online stakes (PMU)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

By means of a judgment of 14 October 2020the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation has dismissed the appeal brought by GIE PMU againstjudgment delivered on 12 September 2018. by the Paris Court of Appeal (Pole 5, Chamber 4), in the dispute between it and Betclic, confirming the existence (...)

14 Oct 2020 R

Private enforcement: The French Supreme Court confirms the existence of a civil fault attached to a dominant operator which did not separate its stakes into physical and online points of sale (PMU)

Marie Cartapanis • N° 1-2021 • pp. 136-138

On October 14, 2020, the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal brought by the economic interest group Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) in the case between it and the company Betclic (see Alain Ronzano, Civil fault: The Court of Cassation confirms the existence of a civil fault attributable to the (...)

8 Oct 2020 R

Intellectual property: The Paris Court of Appeal confirms almost entirely the decision requiring a search engine to negotiate with press publishers (Google)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

On 8 October 2020, Chamber 5-7 of the Paris Court of Appeal delivered its judgment. on Google’s appeal against the decision no. 20-MC-01 of 9 April 2020The Court of First Instance held that the Authority’s decision was not against Decision No 19-D-26 of 19 December 2019, as stated on the first (...)

8 Oct 2020 R

Discrimination: The Paris Court of Appeal upholds essential part of the decision requiring a search engine to negotiate with press publishers as interim measures (Google / SPEM)

Marie Cartapanis • N° 1-2021 • pp. 138-140

It will be recalled that in a decision dated April 9, 2019, the Competition Authority had issued protective measures against Google in the context of a potential abuse of a dominant position (see our previous column, Discrimination : The French Competition Authority orders protective measures (...)

16 Sep 2020 R

Abuse of dominant position: The French Supreme Court confirms in all respects the conclusions of the Court of Appeal concerning practices implemented by an infrastructure operator in the digital and audiovisual sector to prevent the installation of competing towers (TDF)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

On 16 September 2020, the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation handed down its ruling in the case of practices implemented by TDF to prevent the installation of competing pylons. It rejects all the pleas raised in the main appeal brought by TDF, but also the sole plea in the (...)

16 Sep 2020 R

Abuse of dominant position: The French Supreme Court once again censors the Paris Court of Appeal in the case of access to the fixed telephony market for second homes (Orange / SFR)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

In a judgment delivered on 16 September 2020In a decision handed down on June 8, 2018, the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation once again censured the Paris Court of Appeal in the case of access to the fixed telephony market for secondary residences, following a so-called "stand alone" (...)

16 Sep 2020 R

Rebates: The French Supreme Court validates the sanction of an exclusivity rebate pronounced by the Paris Court of Appeal for abuse of dominant position (TDF)

Lucas Bettoni • N° 1-2021

Facts and procedure The Competition Authority has been seized by an audiovisual services broadcasting operator for practices committed by TDF, the leading competitor on this market, which could potentially constitute an abuse of a dominant position. By decision of June 6, 2016, the perpetrator (...)

16 Sep 2020 R

Abuse of exclusion: The French Supreme Court upholds the judgment of the Paris Court of Appeal sanctioning a practice of exclusivity rebates but rejecting a practice of denigration in the terrestrial television broadcasting sector (TDF)

Anne Wachsmann, Nicolas Zacharie • N° 1-2021 • pp. 134-135

In a decision no. 16-D-11 of 6 June 201620 million, the Competition Authority had sanctioned the company TDF, as well as its parents, for two practices of abuse of a dominant position (see F. Marty, Concurrences n° 3-2016, p. 9). The practices in question had taken place in the terrestrial (...)

16 Sep 2020 R

Price squeeze: The French Supreme Court overturns a decision of the Paris Court of Appeal for failing to examine the impact of the victim’s conduct on the classification as an abuse of the company’s conduct while in a dominant position (SFR / Orange)

Anne Wachsmann, Nicolas Zacharie • N° 1-2021 • pp. 135-136

In a judgment dated February 12, 2014, the Commercial Court ordered the company Orange ["Orange"] to pay damages of 51.38 million euros to the company SFR ["SFR"] for having abused its dominant position. In this case, whose facts date back to the early 2010’s, Orange offered its customers a (...)

9 Sep 2020 R

Collective dominant position: The French Competition Authority sanctions pharmaceutical companies for abusing their collective dominant position in the French market for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration with a fine of 444 million euros (Novartis, Roche and Genentech)

Alain Ronzano • N° 4-2020

By Decision No. 20-D-11 of 9 September 2020The French Competition Authority has imposed a fine of 444 million euros on the Novartis group and the Roche/Genentech group (385 million for Novartis alone) for abusing their collective dominant position on the French market for the treatment of (...)

9 Sep 2020 R

Access to facilities: Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe calls on the Court of Justice of the European Union to confine the Bronner judgment to the refusal of access to an opposing facility by an undertaking in a dominant position and to reject the concept of ’implied refusal of access’ (Slovak Telekom) (Deutsche Telekom)

Alain Ronzano • N° 4-2020

On 9 September 2020, Advocate General Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe delivered his Opinion. in Cases C-152/19 (Deutsche Telekom AG v European Commission) and C-165/19 (Slovak Telekom a.s. v European Commission). As the incumbent and leading telecoms operator in Slovakia, a subsidiary of Deutsche (...)

9 Sep 2020 R

Collective dominant position: The French Competition Authority sanctions three pharmaceutical companies for denigration practices and for spreading alarmist, even misleading, discourse to public authorities (Novartis, Roche, Genentech)

Anne Wachsmann, Nicolas Zacharie • N° 4-2020 • pp. 137-141

In a decision of September 9, 2020, the French Competition Authority ("the Authority") sanctioned Novartis, Roche and Genentech for abusive practices aimed at safeguarding sales of the drug Lucentis for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration ("AMD") to the detriment of the drug (...)

2 Sep 2020 R

Fines: The French Supreme Court confirmes in the ’zinc case’ that the omission concerning the offender’s membership of a powerful group constituted a material error which the Court of Appeal was entitled to rectify (Umicore)

Alain Ronzano • N° 1-2021

In a judgment delivered on 2 September 2020The Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation, rejecting the appeals lodged by the Umicore group - the appeal lodged by the Chairman of the Authority, which was considered late, was declared inadmissible - not only confirms the judgment handed down (...)

16 Jul 2020 R

Copyright: Advocate General Pitruzzella invites the Court to clarify the conditions under which a copyright management organisation in a de facto monopoly situation may be required to impose unfair royalties on organisers of music festivals which are liable to constitute an abuse of a dominant position (SABAM / W.W, WCD)

Alain Ronzano • N° 4-2020

On 16 July 2020, Advocate General Giovanni Pitruzzella delivered his Opinion in Case C-372/19 (SABAM).which follows the reference for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal de l’entreprise d’Anvers (Antwerp Works Tribunal) concerning the remuneration charged to music festivals by a Belgian (...)

15 Jul 2020 R

Remedies: The European Commission invites interested third parties to submit their observations on commitments proposed by a pharmaceutical company to reduce prices in Europe for six key cancer drugs by an average of 73% (Aspen)

Alain Ronzano • N° 4-2020

On 15 July 2020, the following appeared in the OJEU a Commission Notice inviting interested third parties to comment on Aspen’s commitments to reduce prices in Europe for six key cancer drugs by an average of 73% in order to address the Commission’s concerns about excessive pricing, on the basis (...)

14 Jul 2020 R

Exploitative abuse: The European Commission initiates a market test of commitments proposed by a pharmaceutical company to address its competition concerns about possible excessive prices for anti-cancer drugs (Aspen)

Frédéric Marty • N° 4-2020 • pp. 133-134

The Commission is launching a market test to gather the views of interested parties onAspen ’s proposed commitments to address competition concerns relating to its pricing practices on a number of cancer drugs. Pending a comment on the substance of the case - the Commission is only at the stage (...)

29 Jun 2020 R

Exclusionary abuse: The European Free Trade Association’s Surveillance Authority sanctions the incumbent operator in the Norwegian telecommunications sector for a strategy of price squeeze in the field of stand-alone mobile broadband services (Telenor)

Frédéric Marty • N° 4-2020 • pp. 132-133

On 29 June 2020, the EFTA Surveillance Authority fined the Norwegian telecoms incumbent operator almost € 112 million for implementing a margin squeeze strategy against its competitors in the downstream market for stand-alone broadband services. Telenor is vertically integrated and as such (...)

10 Jun 2020 R

Barriers to entry: The French Supreme Court dismisses an appeal against the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal, which had confirmed in all respects the sanction of three eviction practices for the access to the Eiffel Tower site (TDF)

Alain Ronzano • N° 3-2020

In a judgment delivered on 10 June 20205 million for the sole eviction practice implemented on the market for the renewal of the agreement for the occupation of the Eiffel Tower site. In its decision, the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation, ruling in a panel that did not give any (...)

10 Jun 2020 R

Exclusionary abuse: The French Supreme Court rejects an appeal against a judgment of the Paris Court of Appeal which validated the sanction, by the French Competition Authority, of an undertaking for a late and partial transmission of essential information in order to answer to invitations to tender and for having put in place anticompetitive prices (TDF)

Anne Wachsmann, Nicolas Zacharie • N° 3-2020 • p. 106

In a judgment dated June 10, 2020, the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) dismissed an appeal against the judgment of the Paris Court of Appeal (the "Court of Appeal"), which had itself confirmed, in a judgment dated October 12, 2017, Decision No. 15-D-10 of June 11, 2015 by which the (...)

2 Jun 2020 R

Digital platforms: The European Commission wants to strengthen ex ante regulation of the major digital platforms and to provide a new competition tool to impose behavioural or structural injunctions on them without any prior finding of abuse and without fines or damages actions

Alain Ronzano • N° 3-2020

On 2 June 2020, the Commission launched a broad initiative on the regulation of digital platforms, based on the draft Digital Services Act. In this context, the Commission is launching two parallel and complementary consultations concerning, on the one hand, a draft ex ante regulation of the (...)

30 Apr 2020 R

Dominant collective position: The French Competition Authority rejects a complaint from a television broadcasting platform claiming to be a victim of attempted foreclosure (Molotov)

Anne Wachsmann, Nicolas Zacharie • N° 3-2020 • pp. 103-105

In a decision of 30 April 2020, the Competition Authority (the Authority) rejected the substantive referral of the Molotov company (Molotov) and, consequently, the associated request for interim measures filed against the M6 and TF1 groups. Molotov is a platform that broadcasts television (...)

27 Apr 2020 R

Commitments : The European Commission is submitting for consultation commitments concerning the markets for TV decoder and modem chipsets (Broadcom)

Alain Ronzano • N° 3-2020

It will be recalled that, on 16 October 2019, the Commission imposed interim measures for the first time since 2004. In the present case, the Commission suspected Broadcom, a supplier of components for television decoders and modems, possibly dominant in three separate markets, namely the (...)

9 Apr 2020 R

Intellectual property: The French Competition Authority requires the dominant operator of search engines to negotiate with publishers and news agencies the remuneration due under neighbouring rights for the transfer of their protected content (Google)

Alain Ronzano • N° 3-2020

Seized in November 2019 by AFP and several professional organisations representing press publishers, denouncing the practices implemented by Google consisting of diverting, if not the letter, at least the spirit and objectives of law no. 2019-775 of 24 July 2019, which created a neighbouring (...)

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