Limitation statute: The French Competition Authority has no choice but to declare a complaint inadmissible on the ground of statute of limitation, due to the failure of its investigating services to carry out the additional investigations it had requested (Placement Direct, SDC Investissement)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The strict separation of the prosecution and trial functions within the Competition Authority is a principle that has been established since the Campenon Bernard ruling of 5 October 1999 by the Cour de Cassation, and no one is now thinking of challenging this principle. However, the not very glorious decision of inadmissibility that the Authority was forced to adopt, almost ten years after the referral, due to the (voluntary?) inertia of the