translate English to French: Regarding these recommendations, it might be noted that *, within the European Union itself, some countries have maintained national competition regimes significantly different from that of the European Union (Italy, for instance, did not even have a competition law until 1990), although the trend is toward convergence.
À propos de ces recommandations, signalons que * dans l'Union européenne, certains pays ont conservé un régime national de concurrence nettement différent du régime communautaire (l'Italie n'avait même pas de droit de la concurrence avant 1990), en dépit d'une tendance à la convergence.