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(Joined Cases T-101/05 and T-111/05) (1)
(Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices in the vitamin products sector - Choline chloride (vitamin B4) - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC and Article 53 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area - Fines - Deterrence - Repeat infringement - Cooperation during the administrative procedure - Single and continuous infringement)
(2008/C 22/75)
Languages of the case: English and French
Applicants: BASF AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany) (represented by: N. Levy, Barrister, J. Temple Lang, Solicitor, and C. Feddersen, Lawyer) and UCB SA (Brussels, Belguim) (represented by J. Bourgeois, J.-F. Bellis and M. Favart, Lawyers)
Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: in Case T-101/05 A. Whelan and F. Amato and in Case T-111/05 initially O. Beynet and F. Amato, and subsequently X. Lewis and F. Amato, Agents)
Application for annulment or reduction of the fines imposed on the applicants by the Commission Decision of 9 December 2004 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/E-2/37.533 — Choline chloride) (summary published in OJ 2005 L 190, p. 22).
The Court:
1.Disjoins Case T-112/05 Akzo Nobel and Others v Commission from Cases T-101/05 and T-111/05 for the purposes of the judgment;
2.Annuls Article 1(b) and (f) of Commission Decision 2005/566/EC of 9 December 2004 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/E-2/37.533 — Choline Chloride) in so far as it makes a finding of infringement against BASF AG and UCB SA during the period before 29 November 1994 in BASF's case and before 14 March 1994 in UCB's case;
3.In Case T-101/05, sets the fine imposed on BASF at EUR 35,024 million;
4.In Case T-111/05, sets the fine imposed on UCB at EUR 1,870 million;
5.Dismisses the remainder of the applications;
6.In Case T-101/05, orders the parties to bear their own costs;
7.In Case T-111/05, orders the Commission, in addition to bearing its own costs, to pay 90 % of the costs incurred by UCB.
(1) OJ C 115, 14.5.2005.