Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2016:109
Date: 2016-02-29
Language of the case: English
Subject matter: Competition;Agreements, decisions and concerted practices
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded;Appeal against penalty - unfounded

summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — Plea not supported by precise arguments — Inadmissibility (Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 21, first para., and 53, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the General Court (1991), Art. 44(1)(c)) (see para. 185) 12. Competition — Fines — Amount — Determination — Criteria — Gravity of the infringement — Horizontal cartel concerning prices — Very serious infringement (Art. 101 TFEU; Council Regulation No 1/2003, Art. 23(2); Commission Notice 2006/C 210/02, points 23 and 25) (see para. 200) 13. Competition — Fines — Amount — Determination — Adjustment of the basic amount — Mitigating circumstances — Existence of a cartel concerning an upstream market — Absence (Art. 101 TFEU; Council Regulation No 1/2003, Art. 23(2); Commission Notice 2006/C 210/02, point 29) (see para. 201) 14. Competition — Administrative procedure — Settlement procedure — Opening — Discretion of the Commission — Scope (Art. 101 TFEU; Commission Regulations No 773/2004, Art. 10a(1), and No 622/2008, fourth recital; Commission Notice 2008/C 167/01) (see paras 209, 210, 215, 219, 223, 226, 229, 232) Re: APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2012) 1959 final of 28 March 2012 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 [TFEU] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/39462 — Freight forwarding), in so far as it concerns the applicants, and for variation of the fines imposed on them in that decision. Operative part The Court: 1. Dismisses the action; 2. Orders Panalpina World Transport (Holding) Ltd, Panalpina Management AG and Panalpina China Ltd to pay the costs.