- Query in any language with multilingual search
- Access EUR-Lex and EU Commission case law
- See relevant paragraphs highlighted instantly
Similar Documents
Explore similar documents to your case.We Found Similar Cases for You
Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 27 June 2012.#Berning & Söhne GmbH & Co. KG v European Commission.#Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Markets in zip fasteners and ‘other fasteners’ and attaching machines — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Coordinated price increases, fixing of minimum prices, sharing of customers and of markets and exchange of other business information — Proof — Rights of the defence — Single and continuing infringement — Time-bar — Fines — Duration and gravity of the infringement — Mitigating circumstances — Equal treatment — Proportionality.#Case T‑445/07.
ECLI:EU:T:2012:321
62007TJ0445
With us you find everything. Try it now!
I imagine what I want to write in my case, I write it in the search engine and I get exactly what I wanted. Thank you!
Valentina R., lawyer
3. Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Agreements and concerted practices constituting a single infringement — Undertakings that may be held responsible for participating in an overall cartel — Criteria (Art. 81(1) EC) (see paras 69-72)
6. Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Participation in meetings having an anti-competitive object — Circumstances from which, where the undertaking concerned has not distanced itself from the decisions adopted, it may be concluded that it participated in the ensuing cartel — Conduct deviating from that agreed within the cartel — Not relevant (Art. 81(1) EC) (see paras 113-118, 130-134)
9. Competition — Fines — Amount — Determination — Criteria — Commission's margin of discretion — Judicial review — Scope (Arts 81 EC and 82 EC; Council Regulation No 1/2003, Art. 23(2); Commission Notice 98/C 9/03) (see paras 202-206)
10. Competition — Fines — Amount — Determination — Criteria — Gravity and duration of the infringement — Matters to be assessed (Arts 81 EC and 82 EC; Council Regulation No 1/2003, Art. 23(2) and (3); Commission Notice 98/C 9/03) (see paras 207, 208, 210)
11. Competition — Fines — Amount — Determination — Criteria — Gravity of the infringement — Mitigating circumstances — Passive or ‘follow-my-leader’ role of the undertaking — Criteria for assessment (Art. 81(1) EC; Council Regulation No 1/2003, Art. 23(2) and (3); Commission Notice 98/C 9/03, Section 3, first indent) (see paras 216, 217, 219)
Re:
APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2007) 4257 final of 19 September 2007 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case COMP/39.168 — PO/Hard Haberdashery: Fasteners) or, in the alternative, reduction of the amount of the fine imposed on the applicant by that decision.
Operative part
The Court:
1.Dismisses the action;
2.Orders Berning & Söhne GmbH & Co. KG to pay the costs.