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Timestamp: 2020-07-09 18:24:46+00:00
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Principle of equal treatment - Concurrences
(...) "207. It should be noted that, in claiming discrimination between companies established in continental Europe and Scandinavia and companies established in the United Kingdom and the United States, the applicant relies, in essence, on the principle of equal treatment. According to settled case-law, the general principle of equal treatment and non-discrimination requires that comparable situations are not treated differently unless differentiation is objectively justified (...)". Judgement of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) 26 October 2017, Marine Harvest ASA v European Commission
Alain Ronzano Principle of equal treatment: Advocate General Pitruzzella calls on the Court of Justice of the European Union to uphold the European Commission’s appeal and accordingly to annul the judgment of the General Court of the European Union finding that the principle of equal treatment was infringed and that there was an abuse of power in relation to a decision re-adopted after a first annulment (GEA)
Le 4 juin 2020, l’avocat général Giovanni Pitruzzella a présenté ses conclusions dans l’affaire C-823/18 à propos du pourvoi introduit par la Commission européenne contre l’arrêt rendu le 18 octobre 2018 par le Tribunal de l’Union dans l’affaire T-640/16 (GEA Group contre Commission) à la faveur duquel il (...)
Wouter Wils Fundamental Procedural Rights and Effective Enforcement of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU in the European Competition Network
This paper deals with the fundamental procedural rights of companies that are targeted in the enforcement of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU by the European Commission or the competition authorities of the EU Member States. The paper first provides a (non-exhaustive) list of such rights as applicable (...)
Phedon Nicolaides The EU Court of Justice rules on a preliminary ruling request regarding the Hungarian turnover taxes in the telecoms sector (Vodafone / Tesco / Google)
Francesco Martucci Electricity: The French Government adopts the order on the settlement of reimbursement, by the Energy Commission Regulation, of the illegal part contribution to the public electricity service
Ludovic Bernardeau EIG: The Paris Court of Appeal dismisses the action of a radio-taxi economic interest grouping in Antibes Juan Les Pins against the decision of the French Competition Authority having fined the grouping for a local dimension practice having consisted in non-objectives, non-transparent and discriminatory accessing conditions to the economic interest grouping (GIE Radio Taxi Antibes - Juan Les Pins)
On sait que la plupart des taxis osent tout et que c’est même à cela qu’on les reconnaît. Même sur le terrain judiciaire. Dernière preuve en est : l’arrêt de la Cour d’appel de Paris du 20 février 2020 dans l’affaire bien locale, mais tellement ailleurs vérifiable, du GIE de radio-taxi à Antibes (...)
Molly Lorenzi, Thomas Dillickrath The US District Court of Arizona receives a complaint challenging the constitutionality of the FTC’s administrative process in merger review (Axon / FTC)
Francesco Martucci Public undertaking: The French Administrative Supreme Court specifies the conditions under which the State may be held liable for the unconstitutionality of the law for failure to respect entrepreneurial freedom (Paris Eiffel Suffren, Paris Clichy, M. Laillat)
Le 24 décembre 2019, le Conseil d’État a consacré le principe d’une responsabilité de l’État du fait de l’inconstitutionnalité d’une loi constatée par une question prioritaire de constitutionnalité. Cependant, en l’espèce, la responsabilité de l’État n’a pas été engagée au motif que le lien entre préjudice et (...)
Etienne Thomas Fines: The Court of Justice of the European Union dismisses the appeals against three judgements of the General Court of the European Union and confirms the determination, by the European Commission, of the value of the sales to reflect the weight of the European and non-European participants in the underground and submarine power cables cartel (Viscas, Furukawa, Fujikura)
Dans l’affaire du cartel des câbles électriques, deux arrêts sont des plus attendus. L’un sera prochainement prononcé dans le cadre d’un pourvoi formé par Goldman Sachs. Schématiquement, la Cour sera amenée à se prononcer sur l’extension de la présomption de contrôle d’une société mère dans l’hypothèse, (...)
Arnaud Sée Fundamental principles: The French Administrative Supreme Court specifies the scope of the fundamental principles of public procurement, as well as the consequences of their possible violation by the contracting authority (La Méridionale, Autocars Faure)
Francesco Martucci, Margot Godefroi, Anne Orgonasi Airport charges: The Court of Justice of the European Union specifies the legal framework of airports charges (Deutsche Lufthansa)
Par un arrêt en date du 21 novembre 2019, la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a précisé la procédure de détermination des redevances aéroportuaires mise en place par la directive 2009/12/CE du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 11 mars 2009 sur les redevances aéroportuaires (JOUE L 70, 14 mars (...)
Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, Chris Pike Competition policy and gender
Raphaël Vuitton Notion of aid: The Court of Justice of the European Union notes that the Spanish tax on the use of inland waters for the production of electricity is not selective and therefore does not constitute State aid (UNESA)
Sebastien Martin Transports: The French Transport Regulatory Authority issues its first decision on airport charges (Airports of Nice-Côte d’Azur and Cannes-Mandelieu)
L’ordonnance n° 2019-761 du 24 juillet 2019 relative au régulateur des redevances aéroportuaires a confié à̀ l’Autorité de régulation des transports, à compter du 1er octobre 2019, la compétence d’homologuer les tarifs des redevances pour services rendus mentionnées à l’article L. 6325-1 C. transp. et leurs (...)
Fabien Tesson In-house exception: The Court of Justice of the European Union specifies the in-house exception (Kauno miesto savivaldybė)
Richard Burton The EU General Court dismisses an appeal against the re-adopted decision in the paper envelope cartel case (Printeos / Commission)
Anne-Sophie Choné-Grimaldi Equal treatment: The General Court of the European Union dismisses the new appeal brought by an undertaking fined for its participation in the paper cartel against the decision ’re-adopted’ by the European Commission, since it does not infringe any of the fundamental principles of procedure (Printeos)
Le cartel des enveloppes a donné lieu à de multiples décisions rendues par différentes autorités et juridictions européennes et nationales. La décision adoptée le 10 décembre 2014 par la Commission européenne, qui a sanctionné différents fabricants d’enveloppes pour leur participation à divers agissements (...)
Stéphane Rodrigues Droit antitrust de l’Union européenne et droits fondamentaux des entreprises. Approche contentieuse, Mathieu LE SOUDEER
Frédérique Berrod, Luc Besançon, Philippe Besset, François Blanchecotte, Gilles Bonnefond, Céline Devienne, Martial Dubonnet, Luis Godinho, Thomas Piquereau Competition enforcement in the health sector
This series of articles analyses the French competition policy in the health sector, including the notice issued by the French Competition Authority in April 2019 relating to the sectors of medicines distribution and medical biology. Each article deals with the topic from a different (...)
Philippe-Emmanuel Partsch The EU General Court confirms the compatibility of a polish State aid granted to its postal operator (Inpost Paczkomaty)
Jeremy Martinez Principle of equality: The French Constitutional Court censors Article L. 322-5 of the French Social Security Code considering that it creates an unjustified difference of treatment on the terms of reimbursement by the health insurance of medical transport costs (Ambulances-taxis du Thoré)
Daniel Vasbeck The EU General Court confirms that successor liability for EU competition law infringements may only exceptionally be based on economic continuity (Coveris Rigid France)
Francesco Martucci Energy: The French Supreme Administrative Court rules that the energy efficiency certificates system does not infringe public competition rules (Vitogaz France)
Stéphane Rodrigues Services of general economic interest: The Court of Justice of the European Union provides details on the enforcement of the Services directive of 2006 to the Hungarian national monopoly of mobile payment services (Nemzeti Mobilfizetési)
Alain Ronzano Annulment: The General Court of the European Union annuls for violation of the principle of equal treatment and judicial review a decision re-adopted after a first annulment, in one of the aspects of the case of the cartel of heat stabilizers (GEA Group)
Le 18 octobre 2018, le Tribunal de l’Union a rendu un arrêt dans l’affaire T-640/16 (GEA Group contre Commission). Il y conclut à l’annulation de la décision de la Commission européenne adopté le 29 juin 2016. Le 29 juin 2016, la Commission européenne avait ré-adopté une décision de modification, datée (...)
Anne-Sophie Choné-Grimaldi Equality of treatment: The General Court of the European Union annuls a decision of the European Commission on grounds of violation of the principle of equality of treatment in the setting of fines (GEA)
Voici un nouvel épisode dans l’affaire compliquée des stabilisants thermiques qui concerne, cette fois-ci, le secteur de l’huile de soja époxydée et des esters (ESBO/esters). Signalons d’ores et déjà que la lecture de la décision est particulièrement difficile. Un rappel (simplifié) des faits s’impose. (...)
Jean-Louis Fourgoux Significant imbalance: The French Supreme Court decides to transmit to the constitutional council a priority question of constitutionality relating to article L 442-6, 2 of the French Commercial Code prohibiting significant imbalance (Minister of Economy / Interdis & Carrefour)
Francesco Martucci Inequalities in the conditions of competition between operators: The Court of Justice of the European Union rules that European Law permits a legislation establishing inequalities in the conditions of competition between operators in the sector of fishing ("Spika" UAB / Žuvininkystės tarnyba prie Lietuvos Respublikos žemės ūkio ministerijos)
Par un arrêt en date du 12 juillet 2018, la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a interprété le droit de l’Union comme ne s’opposant pas à une législation nationale prévoyant des conditions inégales de concurrence dans le secteur de la pêche. Cet arrêt illustre la manière dont les droits fondamentaux (...)
Kristien Geeurickx The UK Supreme Court finds that the OFT did not act unlawfully in failing to repay fines imposed on tobacco manufacturers as part of a retail pricing investigation’s settlement (Gallaher / Somerfield)
The Supreme Court has found that the OFT (the CMA’s predecessor) did not act unlawfully in failing to repay fines imposed on Gallaher and Somerfield as part of their settlement of the OFT’s tobacco retail pricing investigation. This was the case despite there being: a successful appeal against (...)
Markus Wellinger The EU Court of Justice clarifies application of the selectivity criterion to State aid (Anged)
Alain Ronzano Procedure: The General Court of the European Union recognizes that the Commission have the right to make an injonction to a member state to suspend the execution of a measure in the same time it is opening a formal procedure (Hungary / Commission)
Jeremy Martinez Foreign opened bank accounts: The French Constitutional Council partially annuls a legal provision aiming to fine natural person and companies registered in France which would have not complied with a requirement to report opened, used or closed foreign bank accounts (Époux F.)
Alain Ronzano State aid: The General Court of the European Union rejects the appeal against the decision of the Commission stating the illegality and incompatibility with the internal market of the state aid regime executed by Italy in favor of companies situated in the area in east Sicily touched by an earthquake in 1990 (Centro Clinico e Diagnostico G. B. Morgagni)
Le 26 janvier 2018, le Tribunal de l’Union a rendu un arrêt dans l’affaire T-172/16 (Centro Clinico e Diagnostico G. B. Morgagni Srl contre Commission européenne). À la suite, notamment, du tremblement de terre qui a frappé l’est de la Sicile en décembre 1990, les autorités italiennes ont adopté, au (...)
Bruno Stromsky Natural disaster: The General Court of the European Union rules that the European Commission rightly prohibited the payment of incompatible State aids to beneficiaries who could not provide evidence of a damage caused by a natural disaster, due to the delay elapsed since that event (Centro Clinico e Diagnostica G.B. Morgagni)
Christophe Lemaire, Simon Naudin Adversarial principle: The Paris Court of Appeal rules that a decision of the French Competition Authority’s College ordering further investigations in order to allow the investigation services to remedy an omission in the case file provided to the parties does not breach any procedural rule (GIF)
Dans un arrêt du 18 janvier 2018 rendu sur recours contre la décision de l’Autorité de la concurrence (’l’Autorité’) dans l’affaire des équipements professionnels de cuisine (sur cette décision, voir, Ch. Lemaire, S. Naudin, L’Autorité de la concurrence publie – sept mois après leur adoption – ses deux (...)
Olivier Peiffert Comparisons are odious: Clarification of the state aid’s criterion of selectivity
Pursuant to the law as it stands, the criterion of selectivity of a State aid within the meaning of Article 107 (1) TFEU remains to be clarified. This article suggests to take into account the fact that this criterion calls for a comparison of the treatments reserved for different categories of (...)
Etienne Thomas Rights of defence: The Court of Justice of the European Union dismisses the appeal brought against the judgement of the General Court of the European Union in the Gas insulated switchgear case by ruling, in particular, that the latter properly applied the principle of equal treatment regarding the determination of the fine (Toshiba)