Potentially abusive conduct that falls within the scope of Article L. 420-2 of the Commercial Code includes in particular: discount systems, discriminatory prices, exclusivity agreements, margin compression, denigration, predatory practices, tied selling and the use of anti-competitive practices resulting from a legal monopoly.
Furthermore, according to Article 102 TFEU, an abusive practice may consist of "(a) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other trading conditions, (b) limiting the production , markets or technical development to the detriment of consumers, (c) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent services with regard to trading partners, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage, (d) making the conclusion of contracts subject to the acceptance, by the partners, of additional services which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of these contracts”.