Cinema: The French Competition Council issues an opinion aiming to guarantee a competition on equal terms between public and private cinemas (UniCité)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Conc. conc. opinion n°08-A-13 of 10 July 2008 relating to a referral from the professional union UniCité concerning the intervention of local authorities in the field of cinemas. It should be remembered that the report on the application of competition law to cinematographic activities, submitted on 28 March 2008 to the Ministers of Economy and Culture by Mrs Anne Perrot, Vice-President of the Competition Council, and Mr Jean-Pierre Leclerc, Honorary President of Section at the Council of State, devoted interesting developments to the problems raised by competition from public or subsidised cinemas and private cinemas (J.-P. Kovar, "Un rapport passe le