Interim measures : The French Competition Authority issues an interim order requiring an incumbent operator to grant its competitors access to information from its client database (Direct Energie)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The decision handed down by the French Competition Authority on 9 September 2014 against GDF Suez provides a new illustration of the sometimes very significant scope of the measures that it is likely to pronounce as a precautionary measure. Ruling on a complaint accompanied by a request for protective measures from the company Direct Energie, the Authority ordered the incumbent gas sector operator in France, pending the decision on the merits, to make available to its competitors a set of data from its file on its customers at regulated gas tariffs. GDF Suez's alleged practices ---- GDF Suez was accused of two sets of practices. The first concerned the