Deprivation of a remedies procedure: The French Competition Authority prevents the historic electricity company from using the remedies procedure and directs to put an end to the practices introducing confusion between the regulated activities and the competitive activities of the subsidiaries for photovoltaic electricity generation (Solaire Direct / EdF)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. By a decision of 8 April 2009, the Competition Authority, changing his mind, therefore, chose, in the case of the EDF's practices aimed at favouring the competitive activities of its photovoltaic power generation subsidiary, to abandon the path of the commitments - even though borrowed beyond the market test -, for return to the pattern of litigation. The Authority therefore enjoins EDF, as a precautionary measure and pending a decision on the merits, to amend, within one month, its commercial communication so as to separate its public service activities from its public service activities. subsidiaries operating in the competitive sector (elimination in