Reasonable period: The Paris Court of Appeal provides indication on application by the French Competition Council of the principles of fairness, adversial proceedings and of reasonable period (TPS/Canal +)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CA Paris, 1st ch. H, November 15, 2005, TPS c/ Canal Plus and others. against Conc. conc. dec. 05-D-13 of March 18, 2005 In this judgment, the Court of Appeal first of all noted that the principle of impartiality, which implies the separation between the sanctioning and investigating authorities, does not prevent the Competition Council from continuing the investigation during its session. The Council may therefore, at that time, independently of