Digital has fundamentally changed the relationships between producer and consumer. A working day brought together economists, lawyers, regulators and operators in Telecom ParisTech to take stock of the field of regulation in the field of small and large distribution.
– E-commerce and vertical relationships
Intervention by Anne Perrot (video in English)
The intervention of Anne Perrot, vice-president of the competition authority, transcribes the debates on e-commerce. More precisely Anne Perrot is on four cases than the Competition Council had to examine where a supplier wishes to selectively choose its distributors and in particular prohibits the distribution of its product on the Internet. Online trade appears for the regulator as the means of increasing the degree of competition in an excessively regulated and not very competitive sector (distribution).
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– The regulation of supplier-distributors in retail trade in France (pdf), by Maya Bacache-Beauvallet
The text of Maya Bacache-Beauvallet takes stock of regulation in retail. Political debates around the reform of the Galland law which prohibits resale at a loss and the Raffarin law which subjects any opening of a large (more than 300 m2) trade in an administrative authorization are examined.
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