Selective distribution network: The Court of Justice decides that the prohibition of on-line sales amounted to a restriction of competition by object which could not be exempted through the general terms of a block exemption (Pierre Fabre)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. CJUE, 13 October 2011, Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmetics, Case C-439/09 The judgment of the Court of Justice in the Pierre Fabre case was eagerly awaited. Whereas, firstly, in the sense that it came as a result of various "assaults" against the prohibition on selected distributors to sell the products on the Internet: from the European Commission to the Paris Court of Appeal (CA Paris, 29 October 2009, RG n° 2008/23812, Sté Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmétique), on the one hand, and