French Competition Law provides a comprehensive review of the French rules relating to competition: restrictive agreements, commercial negotiation, abuses of a dominant position, procedure and merger control.

French Competition Law

Any act which breaches the principle of equality of arms between competitors is likely to constitute an act of unfair competition . Disruption may result in particular from acts of misappropriation of know-how or those which disrupt the commercial activity of a competitor, or from pricing practices or loss-leader pricing , unlawful canvassing or, more generally, any behavior contrary to regulations.

The misappropriation of the confidential information and documents of a competing undertaking by paying informants is unfair and wrongful, even if its originator did not ultimately bid in the tender for reasons internal to the undertaking, provided that it takes place in a context of breach of equality of arms between competitors, CA Nîmes, 28 November 2019, LawLex201900001468JBJ.

CA Paris, 20 November 2020, LawLex202000003324JBJ: an e-commerce platform, which is paid per “click” and which displays on the first pages of its site numerous products of a well-known brand of children's clothing, of which it knows that a large majority - 93% of the items displayed - are unavailable, even though they are likely to remain displayed for 30 days, and which refers users to the possibility of seeing similar competing products, commits an act of unfair competition by using the brand in question in order to attract customers and to offer articles of other brands in an attempt to generate traffic on its site.

72. Disruption of production or business activity