Adopted on April 20, 2010, the EU Regulation n°330/2010, known as the vertical agreements Block Exemption Regulation (the “New Regulation”), shall enter into force on June 1, 2010. It shall apply to all agreements entered into after May 31, 2010 and shall remain effective up to May 31, 2022.
As a friend and counsel of the Mérieux Family, André Soulier, who sat at the Lyon municipal council with Jean and then Alain Mérieux, wanted to pay a tribute to this ingenious dynasty and authored an article published in the Official Municipal Bulletin of the City of Lyon.
There have always been close links between collective dominant market positions (Article L.420-2 of the French Commercial Code / Article 82 of the TEC[1]) and concerted practices (Article L.420-1 of the French Commercial Code / Article 81 of the TEC). Indeed, the existence of structural links between companies (notably in the form of concluded agreements) […]
By judgment dated February 10, 2010[1], the Conseil d’Etat[2] voided certain provisions of the Decree of December 19, 2008 that amended Article 28 of the French Public Procurement Contracts Code (“FPPCC”) with regard to the threshold under which contracting authorities are exempt from certain market tendering procedural rules. Article 28 of the FPPCC, as amended […]
The “rupture conventionnelle” is a contractually negotiated termination of an indefinite term employment agreement. It was created by the Law no. 2008-596 of June 25, 2008, and has been a huge success. In 2009, out of the 230,095 terminations that have been contractually negotiated, 191,309 or 83.14% of them were approved by the French labor […]
By judgment rendered on April 6, 2010, the Chambery Court of Appeals rejected a request for dissolution of the association Olympique Croix de Savoie linked to the Evian-Thonon-Gaillard soccer club,