LEGAL PRACTICE: UNILATERAL PRACTICES - ANTICOMPETITIVE PRACTICES - LOCAL DIMENSION - MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS - TRANSACTION - INJUNCTION
Local anticompetitive practices: Operation and review of the transaction-injunction mechanism
This article focuses on settlement and/or injunction proceedings implemented by the Minister for Economic Affairs since 2009 for anticompetitive practices with a local dimension. It also provides a comprehensive review of the decisions taken over the past ten years and analyses the use of this valuable tool by the DGCCRF.
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1. Residual competence of the General Directorate for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) in the fight against anti-competitive practices, the injunction and transaction mechanism, which has existed since 2009 [1] for local practices, is particularly interesting for both companies and competition authorities.
2. When practices affect a market of local dimension, the Minister in charge of the economy, in practice the interregional competition investigation brigades (BIEC), each of which comes under a pole C of the regional directorate of companies, competition, consumption, labour and employment (DIRECCTE), may, in accordance with Article
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