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Article R462-3 of the French Commercial code

The adversarial procedure provided for in Article L. 462-3 includes the notification of a report by the general rapporteur to the parties involved before the court, to the Government Commissioner to the Competition Authority and, where applicable, to other persons whose conduct has been examined in the report with regard to Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty establishing the European Community and of Articles L. 420-1, L. 420-2, L….

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Article R462-5 of the French Commercial code

I.-The Competition Authority shall be informed in advance of the group purchasing agreements referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 462-10 when the following two conditions are met: a) The total worldwide turnover excluding tax of all the undertakings or groups of natural or legal persons party to such agreements exceeds 10 billion euros; b) The total turnover excluding tax achieved on purchases in France under such agreements…

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Article R463-1 of the French Commercial code

The referral to the Autorité de la concurrence shall be sent either by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, or by deposit at the headquarters of the Autorité de la concurrence, in quadruplicate, or via a secure electronic document exchange platform. It may be accompanied by attachments. The referral specifies: its subject matter and the provisions of national or Community competition law on which the referring party bases its request;…

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Article R463-2 of the French Commercial code

The filing of pleadings, supporting documents or observations before the Competition Authority under the signature and stamp of a lawyer shall constitute an election of domicile at the lawyer’s chambers or at the registered office of the law firm.

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Article R463-3 of the French Commercial code

The rapporteur general or a deputy rapporteur general may, on his or her own initiative or at the request of the parties or the Government Commissioner, combine the investigation of several cases. At the end of their investigation, the Competition Authority may issue a joint decision. The general rapporteur or a deputy general rapporteur may also split the investigation of a referral into several cases.

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Article R463-4 of the French Commercial code

In application of article L. 450-6, the General Rapporteur entrusts the investigation of a case to one or more rapporteurs appointed by him. In the course of the investigation, he may change this appointment and assign the case to a new rapporteur. .

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Article R463-5 of the French Commercial code

Where the rapporteur deems it useful, for the investigation of the referrals referred to in Article L. 462-5 and requests for precautionary measures under article L. 464-1 for which it is responsible, and in particular in urgent cases, to ask the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control to disclose information already in its possession, its request shall be forwarded by the General Rapporteur, in accordance with the…

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