Judgment — ECLI:EU:C:2016:55
Date: 2016-01-28
Language of the case: French
Court formation: Ninth Chamber
Subject matter: Competition
Procedure: Action for annulment;Appeal - unfounded;Appeal - inadmissible
Origin: France

Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 28 January 2016 — Éditions Odile Jacob SAS v European Commission, Lagardère SCA, Wendel (Case C-514/14 P) 1 (Appeal — Merger of undertakings in the book publishing market — Decision adopted following the annulment of a decision approving the purchaser of certain assets for lack of independence of an agent — Article 266 TFEU — Enforcement of the judgment ordering annulment — Subject matter of proceedings — Legal basis for the decision at issue — Retroactive effect of that decision — Independence of the purchaser of the assets sold vis-à-vis the seller) Language of the case: French Parties Appellant: Éditions Odile Jacob SAS (represented by: J.-F. Bellis, O. Fréget and L. Eskenazi, avocats) Other parties to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: C. Giolito and B. Mongin, acting as Agents), Lagardère SCA (represented by: A. Winckler, F. de Bure, J.-B. Pinçon and L. Bary, avocats), Wendel (represented by: M. Trabucchi, F. Gordon, A. Gosset-Grainville, avocats, and C. Renner, Rechtsanwältin) Operative part of the judgment The Court: 1. Dismisses the appeal. 2. Orders Éditions Odile Jacob SAS to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission, Lagardère SCA and Wendel. ____________ 1 OJ C 26, 26.1.2015.