Breach of commitments: The French Competition Authority adopts sanctions against the city of Marseille for having violated its commitments, which had been made binding by the competition authority in a previous decision (Marseille)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Aut. conc. dec. no. 11-D-10 of 6 July 2011 relating to compliance by the city of Marseille with the commitments made in Competition Council Decision no. 08-D-43 of 22 December 2008 The abolition of the municipal monopoly on the external service of undertakers by Act No. 93-23 of 8 January 1993 gave rise to a competitive dispute whose nature and implications are not unrelated to the liberalization of network industries. Whether it concerns referrals relating to the control of an asset that is sometimes essential, such as funeral homes, or the distortion of competition that may arise between direct management activities and private operators, the