French justice is well competent to examine the dispute between the Belgian purchasing center Eurelec, co-owned by the distributor E. Leclerc, in Bercy, which has been demanding a fine of more than 117 million euros from it since 2019 for restrictive marketing practices. competition, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled this Wednesday.
Based on an investigation by the Repression of Fraud, the Ministry of the Economy and Finance had seized the Paris commercial court to obtain the conviction of a record civil fine of 117.3 million euros from four entities of the E. Leclerc movement, including two companies based in Belgium which contested the jurisdiction of the French courts.
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