the European Commission decided to refer the examination of the acquisition by the Carrefour group of the French operations of the Louis Delhaize group due to its “specific expertise” in the sector the Autorité has examined numerous transactions – both in the past[1] or currently[2] – in the food retail sector the Carrefour group notified the Autorité of its planned acquisition on 3 June 2024 the Autorité granted Carrefour a derogation from the suspensive effect of merger control which enabled the group to complete the transaction without waiting for the Autorité to issue its decision and thus to change the banners of the stores The derogation was without prejudice to the final decision to be taken by the Autorité the Autorité has cleared the Carrefour group to acquire control of the French operations of the Louis Delhaize group subject to divesting seven stores to competing banners and terminating a franchise agreement in favour of a competiting banner in order to ensure that consumers have access to sufficient alternatives and can benefit from competition when buying everyday consumer goods The transaction is also subject to the divestiture of a shopping centre adjoining one to the stores to be divested Carrefour operates stores in the food retail sector under various formats: hypermarkets (under the Carrefour banner) supermarkets (under the Carrefour Market banner) convenience stores (under the Carrefour City cash & carry stores (under the Promocash banner) and “soft discount” stores (under the Supeco banner) The acquisition by the Carrefour group concerns: (i) Provera the Louis Delhaize group’s purchasing alliance for consumer goods in France; (ii) Delparef which operates – via two subsidiaries – food retail stores under the Cora and Supermarchés Match banners; and (iii) Galimmo the property company in charge of the investment development and management of shopping centres adjoinging Cora hypermarkets The Autorité considered that the transaction was not likely to significantly strengthen Carrefour’s purchasing power in the upstream markets for the supply of everyday consumer goods given the low purchasing share represented by the former Louis Delhaize group stores in France In the majority of areas examined where Carrefour already had stores the Autorité ruled out any risk of harm to competition it concluded that the transaction entailed a risk to competition in eight local markets in Soissons (02) Les Pavillons-sous-Bois (93) and the Charleville-Mézières agglomeration (08) the Carrefour group would significantly strengthen its market power without there being any credible or sufficient alternatives to regulate is competitive behaviour to a reduction in the diversity of the offering a decline in the service level or an increase in prices in these areas to the detriment of consumers and the tenants of commercial premises These commitments will ensure that a sufficient level of competition is maintained and that the interests of consumers are safeguarded in the markets concerned The eight stores concerned by the divestitures or the termination of the franchise agreement in favour of a competitor are the following: The shopping centre concerned by the divestiture commitment is the following: The proposed buyers will need to be approved by the Autorité which will ensure that they are able to provide a credible alternative to the Carrefour group in each of these areas The Autorité will ensure that the buyer or buyers have the skills and financial capacities to operate and develop the target stores and shopping centre on a long-term basis The divestitures must include all the components required to maintain the viability of the business and include the staff employed in the stores concerned before their takeover by the Carrefour group The commitments are intended to safeguard adequate local competition The aim is to allow a competitor to take over the stores and their activities in order to safeguard competition in the area concerned thereby ensuring that consumers have a diversified offering in terms of prices and products The store divestiture process is closely monitored by the Autorité in the months following the decision to clear the transaction The party cleared to carry out the transaction must present to the Autorité buyers capable of ensuring a valid takeover and then providing effective competition which will clear the effective divestiture of the store in question The divestitures do not therefore entail the closure of the stores While the effective conclusion of a merger is subject to clearance by the Autorité de la concurrence the Autorité may grant a derogation enabling the parties to finalise part or all of the transaction without waiting for the clearance decision in order to allow for the continuation of the business activities The granting of such a derogation is exceptional A derogation may be granted in cases where the acquired business is experiencing significant difficulties the granting of a derogation by the Autorité is without prejudice to the final decision taken at the end of the investigation divestitures) or even prohibit the transaction if it is detrimental to competition [1] Decision 24-DCC-255 of 28 November 2024 on the acquisition of full control of 200 stores formerly operated under the Casino banner by ITM Entreprises and Decision 24-DCC-288 of 13 December 2024 on the acquisition of full control of 25 stores formerly operated under the Casino banner by Carrefour [2]Sale of 98 stores formerly operated under the Casino banner to the Auchan group RATP CAP Île-de-France and Italian-based ATM (that in early 2024 launched a French division) have been announced yesterday by Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM) as preferred bidders for three new bus lots in Paris ATM’s entry into the French market would mark the first time a foreign […] Transdev, RATP CAP Île-de-France and Italian-based ATM (that in early 2024 launched a French division) have been announced yesterday ATM’s entry into the French market would mark the first time a foreign operator has been awarded a contract in Île-de-France The three companies have been shortlisted to operate 3 lots in the Ourcq Massy-Juvisy and “Croix du Sud” sectors of Paris and its inner suburbs as part of the ongoing process of opening up bus services to competition Now the incumbents will be put to the vote of the Île-de-France Mobilités Board of Directors at its meeting on April 10 the RATP group’s regional subsidiary covering 19 routes in the southern part of the region managed from the Massy and Morangis bus centres RATP will then continue its operations in this area which includes 19 bus routes in RATP’s historic core including the Flandre and Les Pavillons-sous-Bois centres This marks Transdev’s first RATP contract win Transdev will retain its management of Lot no covering 30 routes and two transport-on-demand services It should be noted that Transdev is also the preferred bidder to succeed itself for one of the first Grande Couronne Optile lots put out to tender two transport-on-demand services and two bus operations centres (Génicourt and Magny en Vexin) the Italian operator managing Milan’s urban transport known as the ‘Croix du Sud’ This lot includes 18 routes managed from the Fontenay-aux-Roses centre The three batches of bus routes in Paris and the inner suburbs will be offered as part of a competitive bidding procedure for buses in Paris and the inner suburbs leading to the establishment of 13 public service delegation contracts this will be the second generation of contracts with the transition from a public contract to a public service delegation The opening up of the entire Ile-de-France transport network to competition as required by European and national regulations © Copyright 2012 - 2025 | Vado e Torno Edizioni | All rights reserved | P.I A major residency card fraud is under investigation in France with 13 people - including two prefecture employees - suspected of helping to issue fake cartes de séjour aged 21 to 55 - is suspected of profiting from a scheme in which they made fraudulent cartes de séjour for illegal immigrants in Paris and surrounding neighbourhoods Read more: Must we carry carte de séjour at all times in France? Agents from the illegal immigration team, the Sous-direction de la lutte contre l’immigration irrégulière (SDLII), began investigating in May 2022 after a tip-off, reports Le Parisien Some of the team were indicted in June this year in Paris are currently thought to be on the run abroad and have not been found and the group is believed to have bases in Turkey as well as in Les Pavillons-sous-Bois and Rosny-sous-Bois in Île-de-France is known to police as a repeat offender and forgery ‘specialist’ He is believed to ‘supervise’ the customers and counterfeiters and the safe printing and delivery of their documents Two of the group have also been named as Hadj Both were indicted and released pending trial on October 17 Hadj - the owner of two shisha bars in the north and west of Paris - is suspected of helping the network to find clients among his shisha bar customers of having set up his own similar criminal organisation The network is accused of helping illegal immigrants from North Africa and Egypt to obtain fake European resident permits The cartes de séjour gave the holders the fraudulent right to remain in France with an automatic extension every five years The immigrants were given appointments with the allegedly corrupt prefecture workers who would process fake ID documents and enable the fraudulent residency cards to be issued The digitisation of the process is said to have helped the fraudsters as it is not possible for workers to detect clues of forgery The team is also suspected of being helped by Mounir’s girlfriend thought to have helped to bring back fake passports from Turkey; as well as an employee of the Moroccan consulate in Villemomble Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-d'Oise on June 5 as were false passports and other counterfeit documents Investigators also confiscated funds of €110,000 and a Hyundai 4x4 Twenty-four individuals who are said to have received counterfeit documents have also been questioned the suspects questioned have denied any involvement or played down their role in the network Recent power cut in Spain and Portugal is warning to holidaymakers to ensure they are prepared for worst-case scenario The resort is set to remain open to the public and not only to professionals PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Haute Autorite de Sante (HAS) health regulator approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for all children aged 5-11 on Monday which will be administered in a paediatric formulation when it becomes widely available one of the doctors charged with the risk evaluation of new drugs “The HAS suggests that all parents who want it can have their children aged 5 to 11 years vaccinated,” she added Last week France started vaccinating 5-11 year olds with medical conditions that require special protection and ramped up logistics to roll out vaccination of all children in the age group once the HAS approves the move French President Emmanuel Macron said last week that he was in favour of vaccinating children but added that this needed to remain the decision of parents although COVID-19 rarely caused severe symptoms in children 80% of severe forms of the disease affected children without pre-existing health conditions “With the arrival of the Omicron variant which is more contagious than the Delta variant we can expect an increase in severe forms in children without pre-existing health conditions,” she added Since the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s lower-dose vaccine on the 5-11 age group last month several countries across the European Union have started vaccinating children in that age group Powered by PageSuite The Autorité has today completed its analysis of the takeover of the stores formerly operated under the Casino banner by the Intermarché Auchan notified the Autorité of its plan to acquire 98 food retail stores operated under the Casino banner To take account of the stores’ difficult economic situations a derogation from the suspensive effect of merger control[1] which enabled Auchan to complete the transaction without waiting for the Autorité to issue its decision was without prejudice to the final decision to be taken by the Autorité at the end of its investigation and competitive analysis could call into question certain acquisitions by considering that remedies were necessary in areas where there would be insufficient competition for consumers after the transaction the Autorité has cleared Auchan to acquire control of the stores in question subject to commitments regarding two stores to ensure that consumers have access to sufficient alternatives and can benefit from competition when buying everyday consumer goods 430-4 of the French Commercial Code (Code de commerce) by letter dated 19 March 2024 Auchan operates stores in the food retail sector under various formats: hypermarkets (under the Auchan banner) supermarkets (under the Auchan Supermarchés banner) and convenience stores (under the My Auchan banner) Auchan also offers online Click & Collect shopping with collection (at collection points or drive-throughs under the Auchan Drive and Chronodrive banners) or home delivery formerly operated under the Casino banner[2] are primarily active in the food retail markets Although the Autorité ruled out any risk of harm to competition in the vast majority of areas examined where Auchan already had stores it concluded that the transaction was likely to hinder competition in the market for the retail distribution of food products in Aubagne (13) and the 11tharrondissement of Marseille there was serious concern about Auchan strengthening its market power a decline in the service level or an increase in prices to the detriment of consumers in the areas concerned To address the risks to competition in Aubagne a store belonging to its group in Aubagne or the target store This commitment will ensure that a sufficient level of competition is maintained and that consumers’ interests are safeguarded in the markets concerned At the La Valentine shopping centre in Marseille Auchan has undertaken to transfer part of the retail space of the target store the aim is for one of the parties (or transferees) to operate at least 2,500 sq.m of retail space (hypermarket) and the other to offer a more specialised food offering Following numerous exchanges with Auchan and the shopping centre landlord and several months of detailed investigation the Autorité concluded that this – novel – commitment would eliminate the risks of harm to competition in Marseille by maintaining sufficient competition and enhancing the food offering for consumers The proposed buyers and transferees will need to be approved by the Autorité which will ensure that they are able to provide a credible food retailing alternative in each of the areas concerned The Autorité will ensure that the buyers and transferees have the skills and financial capacities to operate and develop the target stores on a long-term basis The sale of the store in Aubagne and the transfer of part of the retail space in Marseille must include all the components required to maintain the viability of the business During the search for buyers and transferees the stores will continue to be operated under the Auchan banner the sub-leases will also need to be approved by the Autorité which will ensure that they offer the transferees sufficient commercial independence vis-à-vis Auchan The decision issued today marks the end of the more than year-long examination by the Autorité de la concurrence of the impact for consumers of the change of banner of 404 former Casino stores The Autorité also analysed the effects of another major transaction in the food retail sector namely the acquisition by Carrefour of the French operations of the Louis Delhaize group Cora and Match stores have changed to Intermarché (261) the Autorité has examined several other transactions such as the takeovers of several Casino stores by members of the E In order to maintain the conditions of healthy competition locally and ensure that consumers have access to sufficient alternatives for their food shopping which the Autorité accepted and will monitor with the help of independent monitoring trustees The commitments consist of the divestiture of 25 stores[5] – i.e less than 5% of the stores acquired as part of the transactions – to competing banners which the Autorité will approve before any further change of banner in order to ensure the effective restoration of competition locally which have already been completed or will be in the coming months are located throughout mainland France[6]: Plouaret (22) – Intermarché divested to Carrefour Lons-le-Saunier (39) – Intermarché divested to Carrefour Vals-près-le-Puy (43) – Intermarché divested to Carrefour Auchan was able to change the stores’ banner without waiting for the decision issued today by the Autorité: the stores are today operated under one of the Auchan group banners [3]Of which 18 acquired by the Rocca group in Corsica which was granted a derogation from the suspensive effect of merger control The store concerned is the former Casino hypermarket in Brest (22) a store acquired by Auchan from Casino in Marseille (13) is subject to a commitment to reduce the surface area of the store which will be transferred to two competing banners [6]The three stores to be divested by Intermarché under Decision 24-DCC-02 of 11 January 2024 have already been taken over by Carrefour The three stores concerned are located in Plouaret (22) Lons-le-Saunier (39) and Vals-près-le-Puy (43) [7]Termination of a Carrefour franchise agreement Ils sont familiers à tous les promeneurs du Bois de la Cambre et des automobilistes : deux élégants pavillons blancs entament une nouvelle étape de leur histoire : ils deviennent une galerie d’art Construits à l’origine Porte de Namur pour percevoir une taxe sur les marchandises entrant dans la ville ils ont été déplacés en 1862 jusqu’au Bois de la Cambre après la 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