Agreement (notion): The French Competition Authority sanctions disparagement practices while clarifying the notion of agreement (CAE/Socotec)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Believing that CAE, which markets cables for networks the Multimedia Connect brand, had become a major player in the IT sector. unduly prevailed over its image and notoriety by presenting in its misleadingly catalogues its products as benefiting from a guarantee and certification by the company Socotec, an organisation that is compliance verifier for the compliance monitoring of computer networks, chose to respond, not by asking the competent courts the conviction of the perpetrator of these acts, but, more insidiously, by getting along with a competitor of the CAE, which competitor was incidentally a subsidiary of a major group of companies. with which