Competition Forum

Resume: The Court of Cassation (Commercial Division, 28 January 2026, No. 23-20. 245) has partially quashed a judgment of the Court of Appeal which, having found acts of unfair competition, had imposed a general ban on the marketing of interfaces enabling GPS systems to be connec...

Resume:. In January 2026, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled, in the case of SAS Aowoa v. Google, that Google committed an exploitative abuse of dominance by suspending, without adequate justification, the Google Ads accounts of Aowoa, a French provider of telephone information se...

Resume: The Competition Authority was consulted on the issue of the rating systems designed to provide consumers with information on the sustainability-related characteristics of consumer products and services (French Competition Authority, January 9th, 2025, Opinion No. 25-A-01). Susta...

Resume:  In Decision No. 25-D-08 of November 27, 2025, the Autorité de la concurrence rejected Qwant’s complaint against Microsoft over search syndication practices, finding insufficient evidence to establish either a dominant position, given Google’s structural competitive pressur...

Resume: The French Competition Authority examined and dismissed (French Competition Authority, December, 4th, 2025, Decision No. 25-D-09), allegations brought by Gaches Chimie against Brenntag concerning practices implemented in the chemical commodities distribution sector. The...