Concept of undertaking: The French Competition Authority considers that an organization charged with management of a students compulsory social security scheme is not an undertaking within the meaning of competition law

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Seized by seven regional student mutual insurance companies (SMER), the Competition Authority was called upon to rule on allegations of anti-competitive practices in the student social protection sector, which includes student social security and complementary health insurance activity. The public service of managing students' social security is delegated by the National Health Insurance Fund for Salaried Workers (CNAMTS) to the Student Mutual Insurance Society (LMDE), which is present throughout the national territory, and to ten SMERs each operating in part of it. Unlike the compulsory social security activity whose management is reserved solely for