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
Title 3: Restrictive Agreements
Chapter 1: Abuse of a dominant position
Chapter 2: Abuse of economic dependence
Chapter 3: Abusively low pricing
Title 5: Exclusive overseas import rights
Part 5: Competition procedure
Part 6: Merger Control
340. Abuse of a dominant position, abuse of economic dependence, and abusively low pricing
1 minute de lecture
The concept of abuse of dominance covers three rather diverse kinds of offense: abuse of a dominant position (Article L. 420-2(1)), abuse of economic dependence (L. 420-2(2)), and abusively low pricing (L. 420-5). A dominant position is examined by reference to a specific market, while economic dependence is assessed with respect to inter-business relations. As with restrictive agreements, the law …