Exclusive import agreements: The French Competition Authority fines a wholesaler-importer and its parent company operating in Wallis-et-Futuna for continuing to implement exclusive import agreements, after the Lurel Act came into force (Exclusive distribution of consumer goods)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. It is now - more or less - well known that the law of 20 November 2012, relating to overseas economic regulation, known as the "Lurel" law, prohibited, as of 22 March 2013, exclusive imports that are not justified in the overseas collectivities (V. C. com. art. L. 420-2-1). Such agreements are not only void but also subject the parties to fines under the ordinary law on anti-competitive practices, namely paragraph 3 of I of Article L. 464-2 of