Inquiries: The Court of Appeal of Paris reinforces the standard of proof and thus protects the press companies from competition inquiries (10-Sport / Amaury)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Paris Court of Appeals today, June 17, 2010, issued a series of orders by which the magistrate delegated by the first president of the said Court overturned the JLD's order dated May 12, 2009 authorizing the search and seizure operations that were carried out at various premises of the newspapers of the Amaury Group, in the context of a referral to the Amaury Authority competition by the press company publishing the sports daily 10-Sport, which complained of conduct likely to be regarded as an abuse of a dominant position by the Amaury group, which is also the publisher of the daily L'équipe, aimed at ousting its rival newspaper L'équipe from the market.