Evidence: The French Supreme Court disagrees once again with the French Competition Council’s application of evidence rules in repressive jurisdictions (Sony / Philips)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Procedural law applicable to the Competition Council, the competition authority independent administrative body making, for the most part, decisions with the character of a punishment, it tends, in the absence of a text regulating the production of evidence by the parties in proceedings followed before it on the basis of Articles L. 420-1 and L. 420-2 of the French Code of Civil Procedure. trade, towards autonomy implying the application of the principle of the freedom of evidence? This was in substance the question put to the Commercial Chamber of the Court of