Grégoire Colmet Daâge

In a decision dated 29 May 2013, the French Competition Authority (hereinafter, the "FCA") imposed a total fine of more than €79 million on the members of a cartel formed by the four major distributors of commodity chemicals (solvents, alcohols, acids, ethers, bleach etc…) in France. The (...)

Following a request for a preliminary ruling on constitutionality by Groupe Canal Plus (“Canal Plus”) and Vivendi Universal (“Vivendi”, parent company of Canal Plus), on 12 October 2012 the French Constitutional Council upheld the constitutionality of the power of the French Competition Authority (...)

In a decision dated 6 March 2012, the French Competition Authority (hereinafter, the "FCA") fined 10 organisations of producers and 7 trade associations for a series of practices that aimed at maintaining a minimum selling price of endives sold between 1998 and 2012. This finding of (...)

In its decision dated 30 December 2010, the French competition authority (the « FCA ») authorised, subject to certain commitments, the creation of a joint venture between Veolia Environnement(« Veolia ») and the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (the « CDC ») that will combine their respective (...)

In its decision dated 20 August 2010, the French competition authority (the “FCA”) cleared the acquisition by Eurovia of sole control over six subsidiaries of the Tarmac group ("Tarmac") (the “concentration”), subject to remedies. Although the proposed concentration had a Community dimension, the (...)

Background On 26 January 2010, the French Competition Authority (the “FCA”) authorized the acquisition by TF1 group (“TF1”), the parent company of leading free TV channel TF1, of sole control over NT1 and TMC, two free Digital Terrestrial Television channels ("DTT channels"). Prior to this (...)