Settlement procedure : The French Competition Authority publishes its two first decisions in a hybrid case (GIF/GAFIC/Eurochef)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Competition Authority had not accustomed us to such modesty. On Friday, November 25, 2016, it posted the first two decisions online - these are Decisions No. 16-D-05 and No. 16-D-06 adopted on 13 April 2016 - in which it applied the settlement procedure of Article L. 464-2 of the French Commercial Code introduced by the Macron law. It did so on the sly, without the slightest press release! The two decisions were not posted on the home page of the Authority's website until 29 November 2016. One could have imagined that the institution, usually so prompt to communicate on the slightest sanction decision, would at least have had a press release to