Information;Order — ECLI:EU:T:2025:388
Date: 2025-04-07
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Fifth Chamber
Subject matter: Competition
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Ireland

Order of the General Court of 7 April 2025 – Kingspan Group v Commission (Case T-507/24) 1 (Action for annulment – Competition – Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 – Procedure to impose penalties on parties to a proposed concentration for providing incomplete, incorrect or misleading information in the course of a European Commission investigation – Decision of the Commission’s Hearing Officer to refuse access to certain documents in the investigation file relating to that proposed concentration – Act not open to challenge – Inadmissibility) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Kingspan Group plc (Kingscourt, Ireland) (represented by: B. Meyring, I. Lunneryd and M.-V. Puskás, lawyers) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Boitos, B. Cullen and M. Domecq, acting as Agents) Re: By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of the decisions of the European Commission of 19 July and 7 August 2024, adopted in Case M.10962 – Kingspan Group (Art. 14(1) proceedings) implementing Article 14(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (the EC Merger Regulation) (OJ 2004 L 24, p. 1), and by which the Commission refused its requests for disclosure of several documents in the file in Case M.9938 – Kingspan Group/Trimo. Operative part of the order 1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible. 2. Kingspan Group plc shall, in addition to bearing its own costs, pay those incurred by the European Commission. ____________ 1 OJ C C/2024/6667, 11.11.2024.