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United Kingdom

Eurotunnel/SeaFrance: CAT remits CC merger decision on whether asset acquisition was an ‘enterprise’; SLC findings and remedies otherwise upheld (UK competition, 2013)

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CASE HUB ARCHIVED

—this archived hub records the position as at the judgment dated 4 December 2013; it is no longer updated. For more detail, see the timeline, commentary and related/relevant cases. Note–the case was remitted to the CC/CMA–see Eurotunnel/SeaFrance (remittal investigation).

Case facts Outline

Initial appeals by Eurotunnel and Société Coopérative de Production SeaFrance against the Competition Commission’s ruling preventing Eurotunnel’s completed purchase of SeaFrance assets.

Parties

Groupe Eurotunnel, the Channel Tunnel operator that acquired three SeaFrance ferries and other assets and now runs them between Dover and Calais under the MyFerryLink brand
Société Coopérative de Production SeaFrance (SCOP). SCOP is the workers’ co-operative of former SeaFrance staff who crew the MyFerryLink ferries for Eurotunnel and act as sales and marketing agent, whilst Eurotunnel bears the commercial risk

Competition Commission

Market(s)

Transport of freight and passengers across the ‘short sea’ stretch of the English Channel. This includes all routes from Newhaven to Dieppe in the west to Ramsgate to Ostend in the east, covering the Channel Tunnel train shuttle service and ferry routes from Dover to both Calais and Dunkirk. There are distinct product markets for passenger and for freight traffic...

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