Failure to settle: The French Competition Authority fines a funeral undertaking after it refrained from following up on the settlement proposal of the DGCCRF (Pompes funèbres)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. It should be noted that the decision of the Competition Authority of 27 July 2017 imposing a penalty of 80,000 euros on the undertaker COMTET was published during the period under review. While there is nothing unusual about this decision, it is nevertheless worth mentioning insofar as the referral to the Authority and the sanction imposed by the Authority occurred after the company in question failed to follow up on a settlement proposal from the DGCCRF. Indeed, following a complaint denouncing abusive practices by the company COMTET in the funeral sector