In the area of investigations, the Autorité targets strategic sectors for the smooth functioning of the economy, and investigates where the collective interest and the welfare of consumers are likely to be most jeopardised. In 2021, dawn raids were carried out in November in the mass food retail distribution sector, and in July in the pharmacy data collection and processing sector. The investigation services carried out these dawn raids, upon the following authorisation of a liberty and custody judge, at several companies and sometimes at the homes of some of their employees, to ascertain whether they had engaged in anticompetitive practices in the sectors concerned. At this stage, such interventions assume that the companies involved are innocent until proven guilty with regard to the alleged practices, which only a full investigation into the merits of the case can establish, as the case may be (Press Releases of 10 November 2021 and 9 July 2021).
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