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As expected, the hearings on Judge Merrick Garland s
nomination to serve as Attorney General provided more insights
into Senators views on antitrust enforcement than Judge
Garland s. Nevertheless, there were certain exchanges that give
some hints about what lies ahead in this arena.
Judge Garland s Background
Judge Garland who practiced antitrust law at Arnold &
Porter early in his career, has written on the subject, and even
taught antitrust at Harvard will bring significantly more
antitrust experience and expertise to the role of AG than any of
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Antitrust law
1 What are the legal sources that set out the antitrust
law applicable to vertical restraints?
Rules applicable to vertical restraints are set out under
article L420-1 et seq of the French Commercial Code. EU antitrust
law (ie, article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the
European Union) may also apply to vertical restraints if they
restrict competition within the common market and may affect trade
between the EU member states
Under French law, article L420-1 of the French Commercial Code
prohibits concerted practices, contracts, explicit or tacit
agreements or coalitions between independent companies having as
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With a new presidential administration promising vigorous
antitrust enforcement, and a new Democratic majority in Congress
seeking to make drastic changes to U.S. antitrust laws, the
technology and healthcare industries have found themselves the main
targets of increased antitrust scrutiny. Though companies
engaging in government contracting, particularly in the aerospace
and defense industries, already have had to deal with a range of
antitrust issues - for example, the Department of Justice,
Antitrust Division (the DOJ ) launched the Procurement
Collusion Strike Force ( PCSF ) in 2019 (discussed in
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Introduction Johnson&Johnson ) applied
in June 2019 to the Turkish Competition Authority
(
TCA ) and asked the
Competition Board (
Board ) to
assess whether Johnson&Johnson s contemplated Warehouse
Sale Agreement for Human Medicine
(
Agreement ) falls within the
protective cloak of the Block Exemption Communiqué No.
2002/2 on Vertical Agreements (
Communiqué
No. 2002/2 ) or, if not, satisfies the
conditions for an individual exemption as per Article 5 of the Law
No. 4054 on the Protection of the Competition
(
Law No. 4054 ).
The Agreement sought to establish a quantitative
1
selective distribution system whereby nine pharmaceutical
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En novembre 2020, le Bureau de la concurrence a
accueilli son premier sommet annuel sur l application
numérique de la loi, au cours duquel le Bureau et ses
homologues internationaux ont discuté des stratégies
et des outils permettant de s attaquer aux enjeux
émergents en matière d application de la
législation sur la concurrence dans l économie
numérique.
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In November 2020, the Competition Bureau hosted its
first annual
, which saw the Bureau and its
international counterparts discuss strategies and tools for