Collective proceedings: The French Ministry of justice affirms the strict independence of competition law and collective proceedings

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. I would also like to draw your attention to the publication in the OJ AN of 15 February 2005 (p. 1734) of a very interesting response of the Minister of Justice to a parliamentary question concerning the interference between the law of the competition and insolvency proceedings. Questioned by Deputy Jérôme Bignon, in a question No 48702, on whether the project of the Business Safeguard Act would take into account the problems which may arise, for example, from a contradiction between the judgment of a commercial court accepting a divestment plan and decision contrary to the competition authority refusing the divestiture on the basis of merger law or if