Class actions : The French NCA issues an opinion on the introduction of group action on anticompetitive practices ("Class actions")

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Following the publication of the report on the group action of 16 December 2005, drawn up by the working group set up by the Minister of the Economy and the Minister of Justice, the Competition Council was invited to submit its observations on the application of such a consumer collective action in competition matters. Anti-competitive practices by companies are detrimental to consumers. The amount of damage for each consumer is too small to induce him to seek compensation for the damage. To remedy this shortcoming, a first form of collective consumer action, joint representation action, was organised in 1992 and codified in Articles L. 442-1 et seq. of