Definitive authorisation for purchase of D8 and D17 by Vivendi and Groupe Canal Plus?

• Autores: Amélie Blocman
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 5, 2014, págs. 20-21
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • On 2 April 2014, France�s competition authority (Autorité de la Concurrence) re-authorised the purchase of D8 and D17 by Vivendi and Groupe Canal Plus, subject to a number of conditions.

    On 23 December 2013, the Conseil d'État had cancelled the Competition Authority�s approval, granted in July 2012, of the purchase of the channels D8 and D17 by Groupe Canal Plus (GCP) (see IRIS 2014-2/18). Procedural reasons aside, the administrative judge found that one of the five undertakings Canal Plus had entered into - on acquiring rights in respect of French films - needed to be reinforced to take into account the competitive risk connected with the purchase of the second and third windows for unencrypted broadcasting.