Investigation secrecy : The French Commercial Court of Paris admits the production of the exhibits gathered by the French Competition Authority (Outremer Télécom/Orange Caraïbe et France Télécom)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Paris Commercial Court, 8 November 2011, Outremer Télécom v Orange Caraïbe and France Télécom, RG n° 2010073867 Facts The incumbent telephone operator and one of its subsidiaries had been convicted by the French Competition Authority for abuse of a dominant position; a conviction upheld by the Paris Court of Appeal. One of the operators, a party to both proceedings, subsequently sought compensation for the damage resulting from this anti-competitive practice. Before the commercial court, the incumbent operator and its subsidiary produced several documents from the file of the investigation by the Competition Authority. Denouncing a violation of the