French Competition Law
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Part 1: General Introduction
Part 2: Unfair Competition
Part 3: Commercial negotiation
Title 2: Scope of application
Title 3: Restrictive Agreements
Title 4: Abuse of Dominance
Title 5: Exclusive overseas import rights
Part 5: Competition procedure
Part 6: Merger Control
232. Historical development of French law on restrictive agreements and abuse of dominance.
1 minute de lecture
Although the antecedents of competition law can be traced back to the Allarde Decree of 14 March and 17 March 1791, reinforced by Article 419 of the French Criminal Code, which penalized alliances between distributors of the same goods with a view to lowering prices, the first comprehensive regulation of competition did not appear until after the Second World War. At the time, competition law was …