QPC : The French Constitutional Council declares the accumulation of sanctions against the same perpetrator for concurrent infringements of restrictive competition practices to be in conformity with the Constitution (Eurelec Trading)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a brief decision rendered on March 25, 2022 that the Constitutional Council declared, without much surprise, the provisions of paragraph VII of article L. 470-2 of the French Commercial Code, which provides for the cumulative enforcement of sanctions imposed on the same perpetrator for concurrent breaches of restrictive competition practices, to be in conformity with the Constitution. Thus, the DGCCRF is empowered to impose several administrative fines on the same perpetrator for concurrent breaches of transparency obligations, restrictive competition practices, other prohibited practices or failure to comply