Sectorial enquiry : The French Competition Authority recommends separating the initial purchase of hearing aid from the purchase of subsequent follow-up services

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Here's a case that's run smoothly! Only a few months after announcing on February 10, 2016 that it had taken up the matter on its own initiative for an opinion on the state of competition in the hearing aid sector, and after launching a public consultation with industry players on July 19, 2016, the French Competition Authority is releasing the following conclusions on December 14, 2016, nine months after it took up the matter of its hearing aid sector inquiry. The Commission considers that the main shortcomings lie in the downstream market for the