CASE COMMENTS : REGULATIONS - EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION - ABUSE - ANNULMENT

Telecommunications - Exclusive distribution: The Court of Cassation annuls the French Competition Authority’s decision having found abusive the exclusive distribution agreement for smartphones (Orange / Apple / France Télécom)

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Fr. Sup. Court, Feburary 16th, 2010, France Télécom, Orange France, Apple Sales International, Apple Inc., cases n° 09-11968 et 09-65440

Op. A.G. P. Bonnet, January 19th, 2010, Apple Sales International et Apple Inc c/ Société Bouygues Télécom, case S 09-65.440

Fr. Sup. Court, February 16th, 2010, Société France Telecom c/ Société Bouygues Télécom, case n°09-11.968

Op. A.G. P. Bonnet, January 19th, 2010, Société France Telecom c/ Société Bouygues Télécom, case V 09-11.968

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Since this decision is discussed in detail in the Agreements column, we will limit ourselves here to pointing out its possible scope in terms of regulatory law. In short, the Court of Appeals confirmed the protective measures ordered by the Competition Council in its decision 08-MC-01 of December 17, 2008 (see ConcurrencesNo. 1-2009, p. 200-202).). The Council had ordered the suspension of the exclusivity granted by Apple to

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Jean-Paul Tran Thiet, Orion Berg, Telecommunications - Exclusive distribution: The Court of Cassation annuls the French Competition Authority’s decision having found abusive the exclusive distribution agreement for smartphones (Orange / Apple / France Télécom), 16 February 2010, Concurrences N° 2-2010, Art. N° 31573, pp. 149-150

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