Notification threshold: The French Competition authority issues its opinion on the importation mechanism and the distribution of the products which are widely consumed in the French overseas territories and uses this opportunity to ask for a reduction of the notification threshold for mergers to 7,5 millions € which involves an undertaking in the overseas territories retail sector (Grande distribution en outre-mer)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. A few weeks after the notice on the retail price of fuel in the Overseas Departments, the Competition Authority today issued a decision, 8 September 2009, an opinion No. 09-A-45 on the import and export mechanisms and the of distribution of consumer goods in the departments from overseas. At the end of the investigation conducted, the findings are rather bitter. There is a real problem of competition in the DOMs. And the remoteness of the metropolitan France or the specific tax system alone cannot explain the relatively