Party to the proceedings – Vebic judgement: The French Competition Authority obtains the status of party to the proceedings before the Paris Court of Appeals concerning the decisions rendered by the FCA

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. After the Court of Cassation in its rulings of 17 January and 20 March 2012 (see our comments Concurrences No. 2-2012, pp. 137-39), it is the regulatory power that has drawn all the consequences of the Vebic judgment of the Court of Justice (CJEU, 7 December 2010, Vebic, C-493/08, Concurrences No. 1-2011, obs. A. Maitrepierre, pp. 179-181). It should be recalled that the Court of Justice held in that judgment that 'the obligation on a national competition authority to ensure the effective application of Articles 101 TFEU and 102 TFEU requires that it must be able to participate, as a defendant, in proceedings before a national court or tribunal against a