Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2013:464
Date: 2013-07-11
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Third Chamber
Subject matter: Competition;Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
Procedure: Action for annulment;Appeal - unfounded;Appeal - inadmissible;Action for damages
Origin: Belgium;United Kingdom

summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — Abstract statement of the grounds — Inadmissibility (Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 168(1)(d)) (see para. 135) 12. Competition — EU rules — Infringements — Attribution — Parent company and subsidiaries — Economic unit — Commission’s margin of discretion — Compliance with the principle of equality (Art. 81 EC; Council Regulation No 1/2003, Art. 23(2)(a)) (see paras 157-160, 162) 13. Competition — Fines — Amount — Determination — Maximum amount — Calculation — Turnover to be taken into consideration — Cumulative turnover of all the companies forming an economic entity acting as an undertaking (Art. 81 EC; Council Regulation No 1/2003, Art. 23(2)) (see paras 171-173) 14. EU law — Principles — Equal treatment — Meaning — Limits (Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union, Arts 20 and 21) (see para. 186, 187) Re: APPEAL against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 16 June 2011 in Joined Cases T‑204/08 and T‑212/08 Team Relocations NV and Others v Commission , by which the General Court dismissed an action seeking the partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2008) 926 final of 11 March 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 (EC) and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/38.543 — International Removal Services), concerning a cartel on the Belgium international removal services market involving direct and indirect price-fixing, market-sharing and manipulation of the procedures for the submission of tenders, and the annulment of the fine imposed on the applicant or, in the alternative, reduction of that fine. Operative part The Court: 1. Dismisses the appeal; 2. Orders Team Relocations NV, Amertranseuro International Holdings Ltd, Trans Euro Ltd and Team Relocations Ltd jointly and severally to bear the costs.