Competence: The Paris Court of Appeal declines jurisdiction to rule on the Competition Authority’s communication policy (Roche)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. By order of May 12, 2021, the Paris Court of Appeal declared that it did not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal against an unusual communication from the French Competition Authority accompanying a decision to impose a sanction for abuse of a dominant position, because, according to the Court of Appeal, this communication was detachable from the sanction decision. A look back at the facts 59.7 million for the Roche group - for having abused their collective dominant position on the French market for the treatment of exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD), in particular through the implementation of denigration practices. Subsequently, the