Exclusive imports in the French Antilles: Nicolas Feuillatte champagne and two importer-distributors fined

Following a report sent by the French Directorate General for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF), the Autorité handed out fines totalling €642,800 firstly to the Centre Vinicole Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte, and then to importers Financière Martin and Distillerie Dillon for having respectively granted and benefited from exclusive import rights for Nicolas Feuillatte and Palmes d’Or champagne on the islands of Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélémy and in Martinique, after 22 March 2013, end date of the period granted to companies to comply with the provisions of the Lurel law.