Concerted actions, agreements, express or tacit understandings or coalitions are prohibited, even through the direct or indirect intermediary of a group company established outside France, when their purpose or effect is to prevent, restrict or distort competition on a market, in particular when they tend to:
1° Restricting access to the market or the free exercise of competition by other undertakings;
2° Obstructing the fixing of prices by the free play of the market by artificially favouring their rise or fall;
3° Limiting or controlling production, outlets, investment or technical progress;
4° Allocating markets or sources of supply.