ARTICLES: FRENCH AUTORITÉ - FIRST YEAR ACTIVITY - ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT - MARKET SURVEILLANCE - ANTICARTEL POLICY - DRAFTING GUIDELINES ON THE FINES - CONSUMERS

French competition regulation, one year after the reform: A point of view of authority (II)

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The second part of the article on the Autorité’s first year of activity comes back on antitrust enforcement and on a few general issues. The past year has seen the Autorité implement its new power of market surveillance, which is the last step of a decade of modernization undertaken by the Government and Parliament in order to make sure that France’s anticartel policy matches the stakes for consumers, for SMEs and for the broader economy. The Autorité has also started drafting guidelines on antitrust fines. In addition, it has committed itself to carry on its policy of being transparent on its activities vis-à-vis the general public.

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. 1. The first part of this article, published in the previous issue of the review, recalled the objectives of the modernisation of the French system of competitive regulation that took place in 2008-2009 (II.), before drawing up an initial assessment of the merger control carried out by the Independent Authority (III.) and of the implementation of its new advisory jurisdiction (IV.). 2. The second part returns to the control of anti-competitive practices (V.) and, more briefly, to some cross-cutting issues (VI.). V. The repression of anti-competitive practices: The culmination of a decade of reform 3. Under a relatively technical appearance, the

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