Settlement : The French Competition Authority imposes a heavy fine on a major French State financial institution in relation to a local anti-competitive practice (CDC/SCET)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Twenty-four hours apart, the Competition Authority has made public two decisions concerning the same case, that of an anti-competitive market-sharing agreement between bidders for the award of the land assistance contract of the Etablissement public foncier de l'Ouest Rhône-Alpes (EPORA). On December 5, 2016, it posted the decision online. No 16-D-27 of 2 December 2016 resulting in a settlement in favour of one of the two bidders and, the following day, it posted the decision online No. 16-D-28 of December 6, 2016 sanctioning the other bidder who disputed the grievances, refusing at the same time to enter into the transaction. This is therefore the third