Retail prices: The Court of cassation rejects in substance the appeal brought by several companies in the luxury perfume case and upholds the scope of archiving obligations to be borne by the companies in anticompetitive practices (Luxury perfume case)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. With this ruling of 11 June 2013, handed down on ten appeals against the Court of Appeal's ruling of 26 January 2012, the Court of Cassation puts an end to the long, very long "Perfumes" case. The French Competition Authority, which took up the matter on its own initiative on October 21, 1998, and which had examined the competition situation in the luxury perfumery sector (after the withdrawal of a first referral in September 1993), had found in its decision 06-D-04 issued on March 13, 2006 that that thirteen perfume manufacturers had participated in price cartels between 1997 and 2000 and imposed financial penalties ranging from EUR 90 000 to EUR 12 800 000,