Reference offers : The French competition authority approves the reference offers submitted by a media group regarding the inclusion of independent channels in its bundle offer and makes public the reference offer regarding the cession of certain channels to other operators of that market (Canal Plus)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. A few weeks after the Conseil d'État confirmed Decision No. 12-DCC-100 of July 23, 2012, pursuant to which the French Competition Authority authorized the combination of the pay-TV activities of TPS and Groupe Canal Plus ("Canal Plus"), i.e., the two satellite packages CanalSat and TPS, subject to the implementation of corrective measures imposed through thirty-three injunctions, On March 4, 2013, the Authority launched a two-week market test aimed at evaluating the three reference offers proposed by Canal Plus concerning, on the one hand, the practical implementation of the injunctions relating to the access of independent channels to distribution on CanalSat