Fines: The Paris Court of Appeal refuses to apply the Manpower case law in a case of horizontal practices revealed by leniency applications, and upholds the fines imposed by the French Competition Authority (Brenntag)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In an important and well-founded judgment delivered on 3 December 2020 ( ), the Court of First Instance of the European Communities In the section of the chemical commodities case concerning horizontal practices revealed by leniency applications, Chamber 5-7 of the Paris Court of Appeal, ruling on the merits of the case, resisted the Manpower case law. This case law, based on a decision of the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation dated March 29, 2011what does she say? Essentially, the Court of Cassation held, in the temporary employment case, that in the presence of a horizontal cartel, where the undertakings in question have decided not to