CASE COMMENTS: UNILATERAL PRACTICES - LOWERING OF QUANTITIES SUPPLIED - EXPLANATION BY PRICE MECHANISM - ABSENCE OF ABUSE

Refusal: The French Competition Authority rejects the complaint from a recycling company against an allegedly dominant supplier of used oil. Abuse is excluded on the grounds that the decrease in quantities of used oil supplied (40% in 3 years) could be explained by the fact that other buyers were offering higher prices (Used Oil Collection and Recycling)

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Anne-Lise Sibony, Refusal: The French Competition Authority rejects the complaint from a recycling company against an allegedly dominant supplier of used oil. Abuse is excluded on the grounds that the decrease in quantities of used oil supplied (40% in 3 years) could be explained by the fact that other buyers were offering higher prices (Used Oil Collection and Recycling), 22 December 2009, Concurrences N° 2-2010, Art. N° 31277, p. 82

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