TITLE VIII: Actions for damages arising from anti-competitive practices

The judge may not order the Autorité de la concurrence, the minister responsible for the economy, any competition authority of another Member State or the European Commission to produce a document in its file where one of the parties or a third party is reasonably able to provide that document.

The judge may not enjoin the communication or production of a document comprising: 1° A written statement or transcript of oral statements voluntarily submitted to a competition authority by a person mentioned in Article L. 481-1 or on its behalf, and helping to establish the reality of an anti-competitive practice provided for in articles L. 420-1and 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and to identify…

At the request of a party, the judge shall verify the content of the document in the file of a competition authority that is alleged to fall within the prohibition provided for in Article L. 483-5. To this end, he shall be provided with this document by the person or competition authority holding it and shall examine it alone. It may, without the presence of any other person, hear the…

Where only part of a document is covered by the prohibition set out in article L. 483-5, the other parts are communicated in accordance with the terms of this chapter.