Vertical Agreement : The Competition Council fines a sector of the luxury market for vertical agreements on price (Secteur de la parfumerie de luxe)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In addition to the announcement effect of the imposition of major sanctions - to 46.2 million - against 13 companies operating in the field of luxury perfume and cosmetics brands and 3 national chains of distribution for agreeing between 1997 and 2000 on the sales prices to the Two main lessons can be drawn from this decision for consumers No. 06-D-04 of March 13, 2006. Firstly, it will be noted with interest that, in the present case, the distributors were sanctioned, which is only not a trivial thing, at the same height and in the same proportions as the suppliers, up to 1.7% of their respective sales. The time when the Council was showing a certain amount