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3 December 2024

‘When the French competition authority regulates the The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)’

par TERA Consultants dans News, Publications, Regulation, Regulation

The newspaper Les Echos has published an article entitled ‘When the French competition authority regulates the The French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)’. Laurent Benzoni and Bruno Deffains support a European digital ecosystem that goes beyond the conservative approach to data protection that plays in favour of the major American players. Only a culture of risk-taking […]

2 September 2024

To Pay or Consent? Arbitration Issues for Online Services

par TERA Consultants dans News, Regulation, Regulation

A decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union validated, under conditions, the “Pay or Consent practice. The consequence of this decision: will free online services disappear? Is the free consent of Internet users for access to their browsing data still guaranteed? In a Data Ring podcast, France Charruyer interviews Laurent Benzoni on […]

28 June 2024

Round table discussion : “Technologies, actors and business models; The recomposition of the sector is underway! »

par TERA Consultants dans News, Regulation, Uncategorized

As part of the 18th Conference on High-speed broadband digital infrastructure, organized by Aromates Rencontres et Débats on June 6, 2024 at the Maison de la Chimie, Paris, Laurent Benzoni participated at the round table discussion : “Technologies, actors and business models; The recomposition of the sector is underway! ». Link to the audio recording […]

26 June 2024

Court of Cassation decision_Orange Caraïbes-Digicel

par TERA Consultants dans Competition, Damages, News, Regulation

Orange was ordered to pay damages to Digicel for anti-competitive practices in the mobile telephony market in the Antilles-Guyana area. These practices included loyalty offers, price differentiation, exclusivity clauses, etc. Digicel suffered stagnating market shares and additional costs. Orange disputed Digicel’s arguments, but the Court upheld the sentences, concluding that the losses were indeed attributable […]

4 October 2023

TERA report for COMREG on the cost of universal service and telecoms

par TERA Consultants dans News, Regulation

On 21 September 2023, the Irish Telecommunications Regulatory Authority published on its website the report of the technical and economic study that TERA carried out during 2022 to assess the net direct costs of the various components and sub-components associated with the universal service obligation provided by the Irish operator Eir, during the 2015-2016 operating […]

30 November 2022

The “Excessive price control” workshop by DGCCRF held on Friday 28 October 2022

par TERA Consultants dans Competition, News, Regulation

Laurent Benzoni, President of Tera Consultants and Joseph Vogel, co-founder of law firm Vogel & Vogel, co-chaired a workshop on competition about excessive price control, in coordination with the DGCCRF (Ministry of Economy and Finance). To access Mr. L. Benzoni’s presentation, write to info@tera.fr To watch the workshop: https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/le-controle-des-prix-excessifs

12 August 2022

AFEC (French Association of Competition Studies) Conference – An economist’s view on recent evolution in Competition Law

par TERA Consultants dans Competition

At the general assembly of the French Association of Competition Studies (AFEC) held on July 7, 2022, Laurent Benzoni gave a conference entitled “An economist’s view on recent evolution in Competition law.” He covered recent developments on calculating damages in Private enforcement, the effectiveness of market share thresholds in Block Exemptions – Vertical Agreements (2022/720), […]

3 March 2022

Tera Consultants successfully assisted the Grandir Group and its legal counsel, Darrois Villey, to acquire Crèche Attitude, from Sodexo

par TERA Consultants dans Competition, Damages, Regulation

The French Competition Authority authorised the transaction, free from any commitments by the Grandir Group. In a sector with no previously established case law, Tera innovated by defining the relevant product markets by analysing the interactions between private (households, companies reserving cots in daycare centers) and public players. Tera built on the product dimension by […]

23 September 2021

BIPT renews its confidence in TERA

par TERA Consultants dans News, Regulation

TERA Consultants has been chosen by BIPT (Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications) to evaluate the net cost of the universal postal service and an impact study on the cost of the universal telecommunications service to raise minimum speed for Internet access. TERA has successfully worked for BIPT on several occasions and is pleased […]

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