4.7.2016

Official Journal of the European Union

C 243/27

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(Case C-271/16 P)

(2016/C 243/27)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Appellants: Panalpina World Transport (Holding) Ltd, Panalpina Management AG, Panalpina China Ltd (represented by: S. Mobley, A. Stratakis, A. Gamble, Solicitors)

Other party to the proceedings: European Commission

Form of order sought

The appellants claim that the Court should:

—set aside the contested judgment, insofar as it dismisses the Appellants’ first plea in respect of the infringements;

—vary Articles 2(2) and 2(3) of the Decision of 28 March 2012 in case COMP/39462 – Freight Forwarding (the ‘Decision’) insofar as those provisions concern the Appellants and, exercising its unlimited jurisdiction, reduce the fines imposed on the Appellants; and

—in any event, order the Commission to pay its own costs and the Appellants’ costs in connection with these proceedings and those before the General Court.

Pleas in law and main arguments

When satisfying itself that the Commission did not depart from its decision-making practice, make an error of law, or infringe the principles of proportionality and equal treatment, the General Court erred in law by manifestly exceeding the limits of a reasonable assessment of the evidence before it and misapplying relevant case law. The Appellants’ specific pleas in law are as follows:

1.That the General Court erred in law by manifestly exceeding the limits of a reasonable assessment of the evidence as to whether the infringements in question, and the AMS and CAF infringements in particular, related to the entirety of the freight forwarding ‘package of services’.

2.That the General Court erred in law by not applying the case law principle that, for an infringement related to a component of a product or service, the Commission should only take into account sales attributable to that component.

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