Restrictive practices: The Commercial Court of Paris refused to sanction a buying group on the basis of significant imbalance (Galec)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Paris Commercial Court, 24 September 2013, Minister of the Economy v. Galec, RG n°2011/058615 The Paris Commercial Court rules in favour of the Groupement d'achat des Centres Leclerc (GALEC), a dispute that is included in the actions brought by the Minister for the Economy on the basis of Article L. 442-6-I, 2°, which sanctions the submission of "a commercial partner to obligations creating a significant imbalance in the rights and obligations of the parties". In the present case, the imbalance stemmed, according to the Minister, first, from the stipulation of a special condition of sale consisting of an unconditional