5 THE AUTORITÉ HAS BEEN ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE DISCUSSIONS ON HOW TO TAKE CLIMATE ISSUES INTO ACCOUNT IN COMPETITION POLICY. This year has been marked by On that subject, the new prerogative the attribution of new powers to of the Autorité in the area of the Autorité, under the DDADUE Law discretionary prosecution has raised which transposes the ECN+ Directive. a lot of questions among lawyers. What is your view on the new What criteria will you use to decide perspectives opening up? whether or not to prosecute? These important advances will allow for a thoroughThanks to discretionary prosecution, the Autorité will be modernisation of the intervention tools of competitionable to optimise the allocation of its human resources law in an economy which, with digitisation, needs- which are finite - in order to handle, within an appropriate regulators that can intervene quickly and with sufficienttimeframe, referrals that raise new and serious competition deterrents. These new additions to our toolbox areissues or that fall within the framework of its priorities, invaluable, for example the power to issue structuralhighlighted each year. This regulatory capacity of injunctions in the fight against anticompetitive practices,our interventions will enable us to be even more the significant raising of the cap on fines applicable toeffective in the most serious cases, in order to professional bodies (which has been raised to 10% of theprotect competition ever more effectively. total turnover of the member companies), the possibility for the Autorité to issue interim measures on its own initiative, and discretionary prosecution. INTERVIEW