Predation: The European Court of Justice rules that possibility of recoupment is not part of the legal test for predation; meeting competition defence is not available for dominant firms engaging in predatory pricing (France Télécom)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In its judgment in Wanadoo, the Court of First Instance confirmed the Commission's condemnation of pricing practices implemented by France Télécom at the time of the launch of high-speed internet access for individuals in France (CFI, 30 January 2007, France Télécom v Commission, T 340/03, ECR p. II-107, note A.-L. Sibony, [2007] ECR II-107).LPA, June 6, 2007, pp. 14-22). This judgment had attracted attention because the Wanadoo case was the first in a long time to give the Community judge the opportunity to rule on the analysis of predation prices. However, since the judgments in Akzo and Tetra Pak II (ECJ, 3 July 1991, AKZO v Commission, C 62/86, ECR I 3359;