CASE COMMENT: RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES - MULTIPRODUCT RETAILER - LEGAL PROVISION

Multiproduct retailer: The CEPC issues an opinion on the legal protection of the supplier under the Economy Modernization Act

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*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CEPC, Opinion No 08-06 of 19 December 2008 on the legality of practices allegedly implemented by certain distributors with regard to suppliers. The reform carried out by the Economic Modernisation Act No. 2008-776 of 4 August 2008 (LME) raises a number of questions, in particular with regard to the extent of free negotiability (on this Act, see Concurrences, n° 3-2008). In its Opinion 08-06, the Trade Practices Review Commission provides a number of clarifications on this subject. In the present case, the CEPC was referred to the CEPC by the lawyer of a manufacturers' organisation. This lawyer raised certain requirements of a distributor in the context

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Laurent Roberval, Multiproduct retailer: The CEPC issues an opinion on the legal protection of the supplier under the Economy Modernization Act, 19 December 2008, Concurrences N° 1-2009, Art. N° 23423, pp. 126-127

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