Interim measures: The French National Competition Authority orders the French incumbent gas operator to grant its competitors access to some of the data in its historic file (GDF Suez/Direct Énergie)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In April 2014, Direct Energie, an alternative operator on the energy markets, lodged a complaint with the Authority against several practices allegedly implemented by the incumbent operator, GdF Suez, with a view to ousting competing suppliers from the gas market, but also from the electricity market. The Authority adopted its second decision of the year ordering interim measures. This is Decision 14-MC-02 of 9 September 2014. In fact, Direct Energie had submitted a request for precautionary measures with its application. If the Authority decides to continue the investigation on the merits with regard to coupling practices (pts 91-98), which would result