The French Civil Supreme Court refers a question to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling on the required criteria for quantitative selective distribution (Auto 24 / Jaguar Land Rover)

The question of the criteria required for quantitative selective distribution continues to create intense debate in the case law in France. There are two opposing schools of opinion on the question both from legal commentators and in the case law: The first school argues that the European block exemption regulations, whether the general BER or the motor vehicle BER, merely required there to be specified criteria directly limiting the number of distributors; when a supplier sets a quantitative limit by laying down a specified, i.e. specific and precise, criterion, he complies with the concept of criteria as defined in the regulation - a numerus clausus setting out the number of distributors or a threshold in terms of turnover/volume are perfectly valid quantitative criteria; this has

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Joseph Vogel, The French Civil Supreme Court refers a question to the Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling on the required criteria for quantitative selective distribution (Auto 24 / Jaguar Land Rover), 29 mars 2011, e-Competitions March 2011, Art. N° 35768

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