French Competition Law
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Part 1: General Introduction
Part 2: Unfair Competition
Part 3: Commercial negotiation
Title 1: Introduction
Title 2: Scope of application
Chapter 1: Principle
Section 1: Horizontal restraints
A: Conditions for prohibition
B: Resale price maintenance
C: Imposition of discriminatory terms
D: Quantitative discounts
E: Qualitative discounts
II: Exclusivity obligation
III: Exclusive purchase
IV: Exclusive distribution
Title 4: Abuse of Dominance
Title 5: Exclusive overseas import rights
Part 5: Competition procedure
Part 6: Merger Control
313. The "Wedding basket" ("corbeille de la mariée")
1 minute de lecture
This practice generally occurs when distributors merge, and consists in renegotiating the supplier's financial participation and making continuing business ties subject to the acceptance of added conditions with respect to the original agreement. According to the Paris Court of Appeal, the fact that a supplier accepts to upwardly renegotiate the advantages previously agreed-upon in the contract wi …