Michaël is a partner in the EU/Competition law department of Addleshaw Goddard in Paris. He represents clients in antitrust litigations, merger control, State Aid, counselling, and establishing effective antitrust compliance programs. He is also specialised in distribution law and restrictive trade practices. He graduated from the universities of Warwick (UK) and Sarrebruecken (Ger.) and obtained a postgratuate degree in EC law from Paris II - Panthéon Assas where he now gives lectures. Michaël Cousin is a member of the French Competition Law Society (Association française d’Etude de la Concurrence).
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Responding to an appeal against the French Competition Authority’s ("FCA") first referral of a concentration below national merger control thresholds to the European Commission, the Conseil d’Etat declared it does not have jurisdiction to rule in these cases. Key takeaways The French Supreme (...)
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On 26 March 2021, the French Constitutional Council ruled that, insofar as a criminal provision sanctions the same conduct, the provision of the Commercial Code imposing a fine (being up to 1% of the undertaking’s annual turnover) for obstructive practices to an investigation is (...)
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On 9 March 2021, the French Administrative Supreme Court (Conseil d’Etat) rejected an appeal by Mondadori’s social and economic committee ("SEC") in relation to the French Competition Authority’s ("FCA") decision to approve Reworld Media’s takeover of Mondadori France. The French Administrative (...)
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On 17 February 2021, the French Supreme Court confirmed an order authorising the French Competition Authority ("FCA") to carry out dawn raids at Caudalie’s premises on its own account following a request for assistance received from its Belgian counterpart. What you need to know – key takeaways (...)
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In the context of a stand-alone action – which falls under the new provisions resulting from the transposition of the Damages Directive – the Paris Commercial Court ruling at first instance orders Google to pay EUR 1,2 million in damages to Oxone, a telephone directory services company. Oxone (...)
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On 3 December 2020, the Paris Court of Appeal ("Court") confirmed the fines imposed by the French Competition Authority ("FCA") in 2013 on the German chemical distributor Brenntag, and its former parent company Deutsche Bahn, of EUR 47 million and EUR 5.2 million respectively for participating (...)
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On 12 November 2020, the French competition authority (the "FCA") fined the National Council of the College of Dental Surgeons (the "National Council"), five departmental councils of the College and two trade unions for collectively boycotting dental care networks. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - KEY (...)
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On 8 October 2020, the Paris Court of Appeal rejected Google’s challenge to the French Competition Authority’s ("FCA") decision compelling Google to negotiate "neighbouring rights" with news agencies and press publishers. "Neighbouring rights" include the right to receive payment when a (...)
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On 5 October 2020, the EU General Court ("GC") partially annulled European Commission ("Commission") decisions ordering inspections at ITM and Casino’s premises in 2017 following suspicions of illegal anticompetitive exchanges of competitively sensitive information. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - KEY (...)
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The French Competition Authority ("FCA") has issued a rare decision sanctioning three laboratories active in treatment of age-related macular degeneration on the basis of collective abuse of dominance practices designed to sustain the sale of an expensive drug, Lucentis, to the detriment of a (...)
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On 8 September 2020, the European Commission ("Commission") published a working document (the "Evaluation Report") summarising the findings of the evaluation phase of the review of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation ("VBER") and the Guidelines on Vertical Restraints ("Vertical (...)
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The French Competition Authority ("FCA") has concluded that the acquisition of the hypermarket Géant Casino, by two entities operating (directly or indirectly) under the competing retailer E. Leclerc, raised competition concerns at the local level, which could not be addressed through (...)
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The French Competition Authority ("FCA") has fined twelve undertakings involved in a cartel at multiple levels of the ham and cold meats sector. On 16 July 2020, the FCA issued a decision (n°20-D-09) imposing fines to 12 undertakings which were party to a cartel in the ham and cold meats sector (...)
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On 8 July 2020, the Paris Court of appeal ("the Court") annulled dawn raids conducted by the French Competition Authority ("the FCA") at Whirlpool’s premises in 2014. On 27 and 28 May 2014, the FCA raided Whirlpool’s premises to find evidence of an alleged price-fixing cartel in the domestic (...)
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On 8 April 2020, the European Commission ("Commission") published a Temporary Framework Communication ("Communication") to provide antitrust guidance to companies cooperating in response to urgent situations related to the Covid-19 outbreak. The Commission also announced that it issued a (...)
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On 16 March 2020, the French Competition Authority ("FCA") announced that it had fined Apple EUR1.1 billion, the highest fine ever imposed to an undertaking, for having implemented vertical agreements with certain of its distributors and an abuse of economic dependency against its independent (...)
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On 16 January 2020, the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed the 2018 decision of the French Competition Authority ("FCA") to fine several producers and wholesalers active in the sale of liquid fertilizers for domestic cultivation for having imposed vertical restraints. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - KEY (...)
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In a decision of 7 November 2019, the French State Council ("Conseil d’Etat") dismissed the appeal brought by Fnac Darty, a retailer specialising in cultural and electronic products, against a fine imposed by the French Competition Authority (the "FCA") for failure to comply with its obligation (...)
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On 28 October 2019, the French Competition Authority ("FCA") fined a group of road transport companies for having organised customer allocation practices among its members. Astre did not challenge the FCA’s objections and applied for settlement. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - KEY TAKEAWAYS On 27 (...)
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The Court of appeal of Paris has confirmed the decision of the French Competition Authority ("FCA") sanctioning Stihl, a manufacturer of mechanical garden equipment, for prohibiting, between 2006 and 2017, the sale of certain dangerous products on its distributors’ websites. The Court of appeal, (...)
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On 8 October 2019, the French Competition Authority ("FCA") sanctioned Procter & Gamble ("P&G"), Coty and Chanel, as well as their wholesalers, €176,000 for having implemented exclusive import agreements in overseas territories. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - KEY TAKEAWAYS Since March 2013, (...)
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On 27 September 2019, the European Commission ("Commission") fined Coroos and Groupe CECAB €31.65 million for participating in a canned vegetables cartel for over 13 years, with a third participant, Bonduelle, receiving full immunity for blowing the whistle. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - KEY (...)
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Whilst competition authorities are reflecting on ways to control "killer acquisitions", the French Competition Authority ("FCA") has declined to rely on historic case precedent to control a non-notifiable acquisition completed by a dominant company. On 13 October 2016, TDF, the French (...)
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The French Consumer Act of 17 March 2014 - the Hamon Law - introduced a class action system into French Law under articles L. 423-1 to L. 423-26 of the Consumer code. Based on an "opt- in" format, consumer associations play a major part in this process. Following the adoption of the (...)
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Ce Dossier aborde le développement de la tarification algorithmique et les questions qu’elle pose aux autorités de concurrence. L’utilisation des algorithmes pour fixer les prix est susceptible de faciliter la collusion expresse ou tacite. Elle pourrait même générer de nouvelles formes de collusion (...)
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Cette conférence qui s’est déroulée à Paris le 26 juin 2015 a été l’occasion de revenir sur l’actualité, très riche, du droit de la propriété intellectuelle et du droit de la concurrence. Simon Corbineau-Picci et Pauline Debré ouvrent les débats et nous éclairent sur les droits et obligations pesant sur les (...)
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Le dossier se propose d’apprécier l’impact de la loi Macron sur le droit de la concurrence. Plus précisément, la question est posée, à travers cinq études, de déterminer dans quelle mesure le législateur témoigne d’une volonté de faire évoluer le rôle de l’Autorité de la concurrence. Deux articles analysent (...)
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Le 9 juillet 2014, la Commission européenne a publié son Livre blanc sur un contrôle plus efficace des concentrations de l’UE et invité les tiers intéressés à lui communiquer leurs observations. Ce livre blanc est en grande partie consacré aux participations minoritaires non contrôlantes que la (...)
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Ce dossier réunit les contributions de la seconde table ronde de l’assemblée générale de l’AFEC du 20 juin 2013 à Paris, dédiée à la régulation des pratiques commerciales. INTRODUCTION Jean-Patrice DE LA LAURENCIE Avocat au barreau de Paris 1. C’est un honneur dont je remercie les organisateurs, (...)
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La combinaison des outils de la régulation du secteur de la grande distribution, l’encadrement des comportements et le contrôle de structures a connu une évolution contrastée depuis 2005. Après la publication de l’avis de l’Autorité de la concurrence du 7 décembre 2010, le débat s’est orienté vers la (...)
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– CA Paris, ch. 5-7, 13 janvier 2011, Cemex Beton Sud-est e.a. ; sur renvoi après cassation contre Cons. conc., déc. n° 97-D-39 du 17 juin 1997, secteur du béton prêt à l’emploi dans la région Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur Les entreprises mises en cause dans cette affaire s’étaient vu accorder par la Cour (...)
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La loi sur la Nouvelle Organisation du Marché de l’Electricité se donne pour objectif de lever au moyen d’une régulation temporaire les obstacles au développement de la concurrence sur le marché français de l’électricité. Il s’agit en particulier de remédier au ciseau tarifaire résultant de l’écart entre (...)
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– Aut. conc., déc. n° 10-D-39 du 22 décembre 2010 relative à des pratiques mises en œuvre dans le secteur de la signalisation routière verticale La présente affaire, relative à un cartel de répartition des marchés publics sur le marché de la signalisation routière et à laquelle sont venues se greffer des (...)
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– CEDH, 5e sect., 21 décembre 2010, Canal Plus et autres c/ France, n° 29408/08 CEDH, 5e sect., 21 décembre 2010, Compagnie des Gaz de Pétrole Primagaz c/ France, n° 29613/08 Les arrêts Canal Plus et Primagaz de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (« CEDH ») seront probablement lourds de (...)
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– Aut. conc., déc. n° 10-D-21 du 30 juin 2010 relative au respect, par les sociétés Neopost France et Satas, des engagements pris dans la décision du Conseil de la concurrence n° 05-D-49 du 25 juillet 2005 La décision Neopost c/ Satas est la première par laquelle l’AdlC sanctionne le non-respect (...)
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– Cass. com., 15 juin 2010, Ajinomoto Eurolysine c/ Doux aliments Bretagne e.a., n° 09-15816 Alors que cette fin d’année est marquée par la relance au niveau communautaire des débats sur l’action privée (v. not. J. Alumnia, “Common standards for group claims across the EU”, Speech 10/554 du 15 oct. (...)
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Le présent article est un commentaire de l’ordonnance du 13 novembre 2008 portant modernisation de la régulation de la concurrence. Ce texte réforme le traitement des pratiques anticoncurrentielles à plusieurs égards. Il étend tout d’abord les compétences de la nouvelle Autorité de la concurrence (“AC”) (...)
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La multiplication des autorités de marché - autorités de concurrence et régulateurs sectoriels - et le développement de leurs modes d’intervention sur le marché conduisent à s’interroger sur la cohérence et la convergence du cadre institutionnel et procédural dans lequel elles s’inscrivent. Après une (...)
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1. Comme le montrent les réflexions en cours au sujet d’une approche plus économique de l’article 82 CE ou du contrôle des aides d’État, les autorités de concurrence sont confrontées à la nécessité constante de faire correspondre la règle de droit à la règle de raison économique. (...)
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