Six French food retailers have been summoned in front of the commercial courts due to alleged improper clauses in their contracts with suppliers.
The summons comes following the monitoring of the DGCCRF (the directorate-general for competition, consumption and the repression of fraud) since the introduction of the Economic Modernisation Law (LME) in August 2008.
The DGCCRF reportedly stated that “several hundred contracts contained contentious clauses”.
An unnamed source told Agence France Presse that the retailers in question were Auchan, Carrefour, Leclerc, Casino, Cora and Système U.
