Essential facility: The French Competition Council examines whether bookstores located near historical monuments qualify as essential facility (CMN)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Bookstores" operated by the Monuments Centre (CMN) and located within historic monuments and sites Are the sites of Mont-Saint-Michel and Carcassonne and the Abbey of Cluny in France, and in particular those of Mont-Saint-Michel and Carcassonne, essential infrastructures? By dereferencing a publisher's historical and tourist monograph dedicated specifically to the Mont-Saint-Michel site, the Centre des national monuments commit an abuse of economic dependence? By refusing to allow monographs from the same publisher access to the shelves of " bookshops" of the Mont-Saint-Michel and Carcassonne sites and of the Abbey of Cluny, is the CMN guilty of an abuse