French Competition Law
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Part 1: General Introduction
Part 2: Unfair Competition
Title 1: Introduction
Title 2: Price Transparency
Chapter 2: Resale price maintenance
Chapter 3: Abuse of dependence
Chapter 4: Paracommercialism
Part 4: Restrictive Agreements and Abuse of Dominance
Part 5: Competition procedure
Part 6: Merger Control
170. The nature of the offense
1 minute de lecture
French law promotes price competition with certain restrictions. First, price competition should not lead to abuses, appropriating customer bases, or misleading consumers. Such practices are considered unfair. Equally, certain restrictive acts are simply illegal. This is the case with resale below cost (RBC), which has been forbidden in France since 1963. Resale below cost is forbidden for a numbe …
