Olivier Fréget

On 2 April 2008, the Paris Court of Appeal has found France Télécom and the SFR-Cegetel Group infringed Articles 82 EC and L. 420-2 of the French Code de commerce, as a result of the implementation of practices of margin squeeze, between April 1999 and the end of 2001, in the market for « (...)

By a decision of 11 December 2007, the Competition Council issued yet another decision concerning the (difficult) competition between princeps and generics at the time when the latter enter a market which becomes accessible upon expiry of the former’s intellectual property rights. Although (...)

On 28 June 2007, the Competition Council ordered interim measures against Electricité de France ("EDF"), imposing it to market base-load electricity to alternative suppliers at a price enabling them to effectively compete with the incumbent operator’s retail sales on the free market (i.e. : (...)

1. The Regulatory Context : positive discrimination as a starting point and the TFR a possible end to it Sales of reimbursable medicines to consumers are heavily regulated in France, from the level of the pharmaceutical company manufacturing them all the way through to the ultimate (...)

This article refers to the recent amendments to the German Telecommunications Act introduced by a Law of 18 February 2007 on the modification of the telecommunications provisions (hereinafter : the “Law”) and aims at presenting the problems posed by the amendments from the point of view of EU (...)

French Administrative Supreme Court (Conseil d’État), 31 January 2007, Société France Antilles, n° 294896 Introduction On 31 January 2007 the French Supreme Administrative Court (Conseil d’État) handed down a judgement annulling a merger authorisation in the press sector. This decision is (...)