CASE COMMENTS: UNILATERAL PRACTICES - BUNDLED REBATES

Price squeeze: The French Competition Council sanctions a water company for offering bundled rebates (Ile-de-France)

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*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Cons. conc. dec. no. 05-D-58 of 3 November 2005 on practices in the drinking water sector in Ile-de-France In 1998, the municipality of Saint-Michel sur Orge, the Federal Union of Consumers, and the Minister of the Economy and Finance referred to the Competition Council practices implemented by Lyonnaise des Eaux in the water supply sector in the Ile-de-France region and requested protective measures. The parties complained that Lyonnaise des Eaux refused to disclose the wholesale price of water to its competitors on the distribution market and charged excessive prices. After rejecting the request for protective measures (Dec. No. 98-MC-02 of 31 March

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David Spector, Price squeeze: The French Competition Council sanctions a water company for offering bundled rebates (Ile-de-France), 3 November 2005, Concurrences N° 1-2006, Art. N° 912, pp. 143-146

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