Criminal antitrust: A French criminal Court rules on new criminal conviction and first damage compensation for a local authority (Marchés de travaux publics routiers en Seine-Maritime)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Trib. corr. Rouen, September 11, 2008, "travaux routiers en Seine-Maritime", published in the "Textes Officiels" section of the Moniteur n° 5474 of Oct. 24, 2008. Without going into the merits of this case - the examination of which is beyond the scope of this column - we will simply point out the judgment handed down on 11 September 2008 by the Rouen Correctional Court. This judgment follows the decision of the Competition Council of 15 December 2005 relating to practices in the road works sector in Seine-Maritime, confirmed on appeal (see CA Paris, 1st ch., 30 Jan. 2007, Concurrences No. 2-2007, obs. V.