Essential facilities - Refusal to access: The French Competition Authority continues to examine the alleged practice of refusal of access to a database (Euris)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Aut. conc. dec. no. 09-D-29 of 31 July 2009 relating to a request for precautionary measures submitted by Euris Euris, a company specializing in customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, had filed a complaint with the French Competition Authority against Cegedim's refusal to allow it access to the One Key database developed by the latter. It also denounced an eviction strategy undertaken by Cegedim consisting of the introduction of several infringement actions and requested the pronouncement of protective measures. In this regard, Euris wanted to obtain the right to distribute all the data in the One Key database to