Fines: The French Competition Authority releases its first notice on the method relating to the setting of financial penalties

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Aut. conc., press release of 16 May 2011 on the method for determining financial penalties, available on the Authority's website On 16 May 2011, the Competition Authority published its procedural notice on sanctions, following a public consultation on a first draft of the notice, which was opened between January and March this year. We will not discuss this press release in detail here, as it is the subject of a commentary in this issue of the review. However, from a procedural point of view, we will