Exclusionary practices: The French Competition Authority rejects a complaint and request for preliminary measures by one of the three eco-organisations approved to manage the recycling of electrical and electronic waste (ERP / Eco-systèmes)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On February 10, 2016, the Competition Authority issued an interesting decision No. 16-D-03 under the terms of which it rejects, on the basis of Article L. 462-8 of the Commercial Code, the referral of the case to European Recycling Platform France (ERP) and, consequently, the request for interim measures ancillary to the referral on the merits. The facts relied on in the referral were not supported by sufficient evidence to substantiate the existence of practices which have the object or effect of hindering the free play of competition. ERP, which is one of the three generalist eco-organisations approved to handle and dispose of end-of-life electrical and