CELEX: 62004TJ0279
Competition
Concentrations
French-language publishing
Decision declaring the concentration compatible with the common market subject to sale of assets
Action for annulment brought by an unsuccessful prospective purchaser
Obligation to state reasons
Fraud
Error of law
Manifest error of assessment
Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89

APPLICATION for the annulment of Commission Decision 2004/422/EC of 7 January 2004 declaring a concentration to be incompatible
with the common market and the functioning of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/M.2978 – Lagardère/Natexis/VUP) (OJ 2004 L 125,
p. 54).
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the action;
2.
Orders Éditions Odile Jacob SAS to bear its own costs and to pay the costs of the European Commission and Lagardère SCA.