Prescription - Interruption - Criminal antitrust proceedings: The Paris Court of Appeal upholds that any measure which interrupts prescription of criminal proceedings interrupts in the same time prescription of administrative proceedings sanctioning anticompetitive behaviour (Public procurement contracts in the Ile-de-France area)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CA Paris, 1st ch. H, 24 June 2008, France Travaux SA and others.v. Council, Dec. No. 06-D-07 bis of 21 March 2006, public works in the Ile-de-France region It will be remembered that in 2001 the NRE Act added a new paragraph to Article L 420-6 of the French Commercial Code which provides that "acts interrupting the statute of limitations before the Competition Council pursuant to Article L 462-7 shall also interrupt the statute of limitations for public action".