Class actions: The French Competition Council renders its opinion on the draft Class actions bill (Pratiques anticoncurrentielles)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Concordant Consensus, Opinion of 21 September 2006 on the introduction of group action for anti-competitive behaviour This is a surprising opinion that the Competition Council has just adopted and published on private equity. Following the publication on 19 December 2005 of the Commission's Green Paper on damages actions for breach of the EC antitrust rules (see DG Competition's website), several institutions had taken position on the proposed guidelines and their comments were posted on the Commission's website. This had been the case in particular in France of the