Anti-competitive practices with local dimension: The French Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Prevention of Fraud submits to public consultation a draft decree dealing with the settlement powers and with the injunction powers of the Minister of the Economy in terms of anti-competitive practices with local dimension

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Minister of the Economy persists and signs. Despite the lifting of shield created by his intention to maintain a ministerial window for the repression of anti-competitive micro-practices, the administration has maintained in the draft ordinance to be adopted this autumn the power of the Minister to enjoin undertakings not exceeding certain thresholds (which it seems could be lowered) to end the of practices considered anti-competitive and to propose to these companies that they companies a transaction. With this in mind, the DGCCRF is launching today, September 17, 2008, a brief public consultation on the draft Order in Council regarding the