State intervention : The French Competition Authority delivers an opinion on public bodies supporting French business for their international development

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The issue of support for French companies abroad is one of the elements at the heart of the current movement to simplify the life of companies and, more generally, of measures to promote their competitiveness. Thus, the 26 proposals in the Bentejac-Desponts report bear witness to this (A. Bentejac, J. Desponts, Rapport de la mission d'évaluation sur l'efficacité du dispositif d'appui à l'internationalisation de l'économie française, June 2013, La Documentation française) as well as the draft law on simplifying business life, which authorises the government "to take by ordinance measures falling within the scope of the law in order to merge into a single public