6 BETWEEN 2011 AND 2020, OUR ACTION HAS SPARED THE FRENCH ECONOMY €17.6 BILLION. Professional bodies will now have for them, along with a vade-mecum of good practices, to take into account a much higher and practices to be avoided. risk of penalties than previously. This advocacy initiative, which is along the same lines What is your message for these as the guide on competition drawn up for SMEs, reflects bodies? How can they be supported the Autorité’s willingness to carry out preventive actions by delivering concrete, accessible and targeted in these changes? messages to the relevant actors. Unfortunately, the Autorité is still too often obliged to sanction professional bodies and unions for orchestrating or facilitating anticompetitive practices.In effect, the Autorité also plays Again this year, we fined the National Council andan educational role, are there 5 departmental councils of the dental surgeons’ any other initiatives planned? association, as well as 2 trade union federations, for boycotting healthcare networks. In the agriculturalWe have received a lot of positive feedback on our sector, 3 professional bodies for Alsace Wines werevarious initiatives and I am pleased to see that they are also sanctioned for price fixing. useful to the actors they are aimed at. We are pursuing The risk entailed by this category of actors is nowour advocacy role with new "targets", with a priority given significantly higher, as the sanctions will no longer beto students this year. Among other things, we have set up subject to a cap expressed in terms of absolute valuean Instagram account and a programme of presentations (previously set at €3 million) but will now possibly riseto Master’s students in competition law, to introduce to 10% of the turnover of the member companies ofthem to the Autorité and its work. Regular and excellent the professional bodies, which changes the situationexchanges, highly appreciated on both sides... considerably. We are also considering setting up a MOOC that could be In anticipation of these changes, and in order to raiseuseful to them. awareness of these issues among the professional bodies, the Autorité has published a study intended TROPER LAUNNA 0202 – erutuf evitisop erom a gniretsoF