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Exclusive supply: The French Court of Cassation has in part reversed the judgment of the Paris Court of Appeals on the grounds that an exclusive supply clause imposed by two suppliers on their clients is not sufficient to establish joint conduct permitting them to place themselves outside market conditions (Ciments corses)

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*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – Cass. com, July 7, 2009, Vicat and Lafarge Ciments, No. 08-15.609 and 08-16.094, Corsican Cement aff. In 2007, the French Competition Council sanctioned Lafarge Ciments, Vicat and their distributors for partitioning the market for the supply of cement to Corsica to the

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Anne Wachsmann, Bastien Thomas, Exclusive supply: The French Court of Cassation has in part reversed the judgment of the Paris Court of Appeals on the grounds that an exclusive supply clause imposed by two suppliers on their clients is not sufficient to establish joint conduct permitting them to place themselves outside market conditions (Ciments corses), 7 July 2009, Concurrences N° 4-2009, Art. N° 29268, p. 116

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