Labour agreements: The Council of State rules that, while legalizing labour agreements, Government regulation should combine social interest and the development of competition (Société Nouvelle de Remorquage du Havre)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CE, 21 May 2008, Société Nouvelle de Remorquage du Havre, n° 291115 In a decision that is very rich in terms of the number of aspects reviewed, the Conseil d'État recalls its previous case law (EC, 16 Jan. 2002, Syndicat national des entreprises d'esthétique et de coiffure à domicile, CJEG May 2002, p. 311, concl. Pascale Fombeur) according to which the regulatory authority must, when extending collective agreements or arrangements, reconcile social objectives with the imperatives resulting from the preservation or development of free competition. The Conseil d'État dismissed two applications, from the Société Nouvelle de remorquage du Havre and the Société de