Sanction : The French Competition Authority imposes a more severe sanction on a company, which had formed a consortium to bid for public health transport contracts, for refusing the settlement proposed by the French Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes (Sannac)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On February 2, 2022, the Authority issued a decision n° 22-D-04 relating to practices implemented in the sector of inter-communal hospital medical transport in the Val d'Ariège and the Pays d'Olmes. This decision follows an investigation conducted by the Interregional Competition Investigation Brigade of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, and, above all, what the Authority considered as a refusal to settle by one of the companies involved, at the end of the injunction and settlement procedure initiated on the basis of Article L. 464-9 of the French Commercial Code by the DGCCRF against several transport companies that had formed a grouping deemed to be anti-competitive to