Competition policy: The French Government publishes the ordinance transposing the ECN+ Directive proposing a flawed solution to remedy the declaration of unconstitutionality of the power to sanction obstruction practices

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On May 26, 2021, theorder No. 2021-649 of May 26, 2021 on the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/1 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 to provide Member States' competition authorities with the means to enforce competition rules more effectively and to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market was adopted in the Council of Ministers. It has been published in the Official Journal No 0121 of 27 May 2021. It is accompanied by an explanation of the text, in the form of a report to the President of the Republic. Article 37 of Law No. 2020-1508 of 3 December 2020 on various provisions for adapting to European Union law