CELEX: 62005TJ0174
Competition
Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
Monochloroacetic acid market
Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC
Market sharing and price fixing
Rights of the defence
Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based
Imputability of the infringement
Principle that penalties must fit the offence
Principle that penalties must have a proper legal basis
Presumption of innocence
Principle of sound administration
Principle of legal certainty
Misuse of powers
Fines

APPLICATION for, principally, annulment of Articles 1(d), 2(c), 3 and 4(9) of Commission Decision C(2004) 4876 final of 19
January 2005 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/E-1/37.773
– MCAA) or, in the alternative, application for annulment of Article 2(c) of that decision, or, in the further alternative,
application for variation of the said Article 2(c).
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the action;
2.
Orders Elf Aquitaine SA to pay the costs.