Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 28 June 2005 in Joined Cases C-189/02 P, C-202/02 P, C 205/02 P to C 208/02 P and C 213/02 P: Dansk Rørindustri A/S and Others v Commission of the European Communities (Appeal — Competition — District heating pipes (pre-insulated pipes) — Article 85(1) of the EC Treaty (now Article 81(1) EC) — Cartel — Boycott — Fines — Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Non-retroactivity — Legitimate expectations — Lawfulness — Leniency notice — Obligation to state reasons)
Date: 2005-08-20
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European Commission, appeal, fine, heating, restriction on competition, restrictive trade practice

20.8.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 205/1

I

(Information)

COURT OF JUSTICE

COURT OF JUSTICE

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Grand Chamber)

of 28 June 2005

in Joined Cases C-189/02 P, C-202/02 P, C 205/02 P to C
208/02 P and C 213/02 P: Dansk Rørindustri A/S and
Others v Commission of the European Communities (1)

(Appeal — Competition — District heating pipes (pre-insu-
lated pipes) — Article 85(1) of the EC Treaty (now Article
81(1) EC) — Cartel — Boycott — Fines — Guidelines on the
method of setting fines — Non-retroactivity — Legitimate
expectations — Lawfulness — Leniency notice — Obligation
to state reasons)

(Deutschland) GmbH, established in Fulda (Germany) (lawyer:
H.-J. Hellmann)
(C-208/02 P), ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd,
established in Zurich (Switzerland) (lawyers: A. Weitbrecht, J.
Ruiz Calzado and M. Bay) (C-213/02 P), the other parties to
the proceedings being: Commission of the European Commu-
nities (Agents: W. Mölls, P. Oliver and H. Støvlbæk, assisted by
A. Böhlke (C 189/02 P, C-202/02 P, C-205/02 P and C 208/02
P) and R. Thompson QC (C 206/02 P and C-213/02 P)), HFB
Holding für Fernwärmetechnik Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH &
Co. KG, HFB Holding für Fernwärmetechnik Beteiligungsge-
sellschaft mbH Verwaltungsgesellschaft (lawyer: P. Krömer), (C-
202/02 P) — the Court (Grand Chamber), composed of V.
Skouris, President of the Chamber, P. Jann, C.W.A. Timmer-
mans (Rapporteur) and R. Silva de Lapuerta, Presidents of
Chamber, C. Gulmann, R. Schintgen, N. Colneric, S. von Bahr
and J.N. Cunha Rodrigues,
Judges; A. Tizzano, Advocate
General; H. von Holstein, Deputy Registrar, and M.-F. Contet,
Principal Administrator, for the, Registrar, gave a judgment on
28 June 2005, in which it:

(2005/C 205/01)

1. Joins Cases C-189/02 P, C-202/02 P, C-205/02 P to C-208/

02 P and C-213/02 P for the purposes of the judgment;

(Languages of the case: Danish, German and English)

2. Dismisses the appeals;

(Denmark)

established in Fredericia

In Joined Cases C-189/02 P, C-202/02 P, C 205/02 P to C
208/02 P and C 213/02 P: appeals under Article 49 of the EC
Statute of the Court of Justice, lodged on 17 May 2002 in the
first case, 29 May 2002 in the second, 3 June 2002 in the next
four cases and 5 June 2002 in the last case — Dansk Rørin-
(lawyers:
dustri A/S,
K. Dyekjær-Hansen and K. Høegh) (C-189/02 P), Isoplus Fern-
wärmetechnik Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, established in Rosen-
heim (Germany), Isoplus Fernwärmetechnik Gesellschaft mbH),
established in Hohenberg (Austria), Isoplus Fernwärmetechnik
GmbH, established in Sondershausen (Germany)
(lawyer: P.
Krömer) (C-202/02 P), KE KELIT Kunststoffwerk GmbH, estab-
lished in Linz (Austria)
(lawyer: W. Löbl), LR af 1998 A/S,
formerly Løgstør Rør A/S, established in Løgstør (Denmark)
(C-206/02 P), Brugg
(lawyer: D. Waelbroeck and H. Peytz)
Rohrsysteme GmbH,
(Germany)
(lawyers: T. Jestaedt, H.-C. Salger and M. Sura) (C-207/02 P), LR
Lögstör Rör
af

established in Wunstorf

(Deutschland) GmbH,

formerly

1998

Isoplus

3. Orders Dansk Rørindustri A/S,

Fernwärmetechnik
Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, Isoplus Fernwärmetechnik Gesellschaft
mbH, Isoplus Fernwärmetechnik GmbH, KE KELIT Kunststoff-
werk GmbH, LR af 1998 A/S, Brugg Rohrsysteme GmbH, LR af
1998 (Deutschland) GmbH and ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd to
pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 71 of 20.03.2004.