Leniency: The French Competition Council adopts its first decision on leniency and publishes the French leniency program (Fabrication de portes)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Intense activity on leniency programmes: as the Commission launches the review of its second 2002 Notice, the Competition Council adopts its first decision and codifies the same day the operative part of the decision on the basis of the Community model. 1. First French leniency decision Let us start with the facts: on May 31, 2002, France Portes denounced to the DGCCRF a cartel in the door manufacturing and distribution sector and requested that leniency be granted. In support of its denunciation, it provided numerous documents and a memorandum describing the history and operation of the cartel. A proposal for leniency is made to the College, which, in