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INTRODUCTION
- Goals of French competition law
- French competition authorities
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THE DOCTRINE OF UNFAIR PRACTICES
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Scope
- Conditions of action
- Procedural issues
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Acts constituting unfair practices
- Imitation leading to confusion
- Disorganization
- Disparagement
- Parasitic behaviour
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PRICE TRANSPARENCY AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES
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Price transparency
- Price lists and general terms
- Single commercial agreements
- Invoicing
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Restrictive practices
- Resale below cost
- Resale price maintenance
- Discriminatory practices and abuse of dependence
- Payment deadlines
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RESTRICTIVE AGREEMENTS AND ABUSE OF DOMINANCE
- Scope of the prohibition
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Restrictive agreements
- The prohibition
- Limits on the prohibition of restrictive agreements
- Applications
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Abuse of dominance
- Abuse of a dominant position
- Abuse of economic dependence
- Abusively low pricing
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COMPETITION PROCEDURE
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Competition inquiries
- Admissibility conditions
- The rights of undertakings at the investigation stage
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Competition Authority procedure
- Bringing an action before the Competition Authority
- Interim relief
- Stages of proceedings before the Competiton
- Authority
- Competition Authority decisions
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Appeals
- Appeals before the Paris Court of Appeal
- Appeals to the Cour de cassation
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MERGER CONTROL
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Scope
- Concept of concentration
- Thresholds
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Exercising merger control
- Control criteria
- Merger control procedure
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