Decree n°2012-610 of 30 April 2012 relating to the organisation of the investigations conducted by the agents of the French General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control has come into force on 4 May 2012. It aims at reorganising the investigations conducted by the agents of the French General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (hereafter "DGCCRF"). For this purpose, this Decree extends the list of persons entitled to assist the DGCCRF's agents to include civil servants, trainee civil servants as well as officials working for the Administration under a contractual basis who do not directly belong to the DGCCRF but have been appointed to work for the DGCCRF in the latter's different Divisions throughout the country. Yet, as it was the case previously, the agents assisting in the scope of investigations cannot take any administrative or criminal actions and are not entitled to disclose information of which they may have become aware during the investigations.
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Investigations conducted by the French General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes)
- Hogan Lovells
- Bruno Knadjian
- France
- May 31 2012
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Philip I. Weis
Senior Corporate Counsel
Pfizer
