Energy: The French Supreme Administrative Court specifies the conditions for admissibility of a legal action against a soft law act from a regulatory authority and sets out the possibility to request its abrogation (GDF Suez)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. This decision is an opportunity for the Council of State to continue the construction of case law that it began with its decisions of 21 March 2016, Fairvesta Marchés financiers : Le Conseil d’État contrôle la légalité des communiqués de presse de l’Autorité des marchés financiers (Fairvesta International) (No 368082) and CN Numericable (No 368084) in which it accepted the admissibility, under certain conditions, of an appeal against the soft law acts of the regulatory authorities. Legal framework of the dispute Electricity suppliers are required to offer their customers the possibility of concluding a single contract for the supply and distribution of electricity