Chapter III: Procedure.

For the purposes of Article L. 463-4, when a person requests protection of business confidentiality with regard to items communicated by him to the Autorité de la concurrence or seized from him by the latter, he shall indicate, either by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, or via a secure electronic document exchange platform, for each item of information, document or part of a document in question, the purpose of…

Information, documents or parts of documents for which an application for business secrecy protection has not been made are deemed not to involve business secrecy. The same applies to items relating to sales, market shares, offers or similar data that are more than five years old at the time of the decision on the application, unless, in exceptional cases, the general rapporteur decides otherwise. As part of the investigation by…

Where the rapporteur considers that one or more documents in their confidential version are necessary for the exercise of the rights of defence of one or more parties or that they must be made aware of them for the purposes of the debate before the Authority, he shall inform, either by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, or via a secure electronic document exchange platform, the person who made the…

For the application of Article L. 463-4 as part of the review of proposed mergers provided for in Title III, persons providing information to the Competition Authority shall at the same time specify to it what information constitutes business secrets. The General Rapporteur shall ensure that such information is reserved for the Autorité and the Government Commissioner and that, if necessary, non-confidential versions of the documents containing such information are…