1 November 2011

Qui est le moins cher (who is the cheapest)? Reigniting the price in the food retail sector…

Advocates of the systematic comparison of prices between competitors have every reason to be pleased! Two recent court decisions confirmed the recognition of the positive effects of price comparability by facilitating the implementation thereof, in the name of the sacrosanct principle of free competition. First, in a judgment dated October 3, 2011 (n°09/04687), the First […]

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1 November 2011

The French data protection authority launches its certification process

Companies that comply with the legislation on the protection of personal data in relation to data processing audit procedures and privacy training may now lodge an application with the Commission Nationale de l’ Informatique et des Libertés (French Data Protection Authority or hereinafter the “CNIL”) in order to obtain a privacy seal. The privacy seal […]

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1 September 2011

Calculation of fines and attenuating circumstances

In its ruling dated September 15, 2011, the General Court of the European Union dismissed the action brought by Lucite International Ltd and its subsidiary Lucite International UK Ltd and refused to consider certain circumstances as attenuating[1]. These companies challenged the amount of the fine that had been imposed on them by the European Commission […]

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1 July 2011

Parental liability presumption rebuttal

In a decision dated June 16, 2011, the General Court of the European Union (“General Court”) annulled the European Commission’s (“Commission”) decision sentencing a cartel in the bleaching chemicals market, on the basis of its duty to state reasons when rejecting the elements of proof produced by the parent company to rebut the presumption of […]

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