The Paris Court of Appeals addresses the issue of the notion of generalized and continuous infringement in competition law (Luxury Perfumes case)

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Paris Court of Appeal (Cour d’appel de Paris), 26 January 2012, Perfumes case

On 21 October 1998, the French Competition Council had initiated ex officio an investigation into the luxury perfumes sector. By the end of the investigation, the Council estimated that, between 1997 and 2000, a general and continuous vertical agreement between several well-known brands and their distributors and a horizontal agreement between distributors for the fixing of retail prices to consumers had been implemented. The participants received total fines of over 45 million Euros [1]. The Court of Appeal partially overturned the decision on the grounds that the Council had improperly extended the scope of the investigation to the

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Joseph Vogel, The Paris Court of Appeals addresses the issue of the notion of generalized and continuous infringement in competition law (Luxury Perfumes case), 26 janvier 2012, e-Competitions January 2012, Art. N° 44139

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