Case T-36/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 12 September 2007 — Coats Holdings and Coats v Commission (Competition — Cartels — European haberdashery market (needles) — Product market sharing — Geographic market sharing — Assessment of evidence — Participation in meetings — Tripartite agreement — Fine — Gravity and duration of the infringement — Attenuating circumstances)
Date: 2007-10-20
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, action for annulment (EU), fine, haberdashery, market-sharing agreement, restrictive trade practice, sanction (EU)

C 247/30

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

20.10.2007

3. Orders William Prym and Prym Consumer to bear 90 % of their
own costs and to pay 90 % of the costs incurred by the Commis-
sion, and the Commission to bear 10 % of its own costs and to
the costs incurred by William Prym and Prym
pay 10 % of
Consumer.

(1) OJ C 106 of 30.4.2005.

2. Sets the amount of

the fine imposed on the applicants under

Article 2 of the Decision at EUR 20 million;

3. Dismisses the remainder of the application;

4. Orders the applicants to bear two thirds of their own costs and to
pay two thirds of the costs incurred by the Commission, and the
Commission to bear one third of its own costs and to pay one third
of the costs incurred by the applicants.

(1) OJ C 93, 16.4.2005.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 12 September
2007 — Coats Holdings and Coats v Commission

(Case T-36/05) (1)

(Competition — Cartels — European haberdashery market
(needles) — Product market sharing — Geographic market
sharing — Assessment of evidence — Participation in meet-
ings — Tripartite agreement — Fine — Gravity and duration
of the infringement — Attenuating circumstances)

(2007/C 247/47)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicants: Coats Holdings Ltd (Uxbridge, Middlesex, United
Kingdom) and J & P Coats Ltd (Uxbridge)
(represented by:
W. Sibree and C. Jeffs, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: F. Castillo de la Torre and K. Mojzesowicz, Agents)

Re:

Application, principally, for annulment of Commission Decision
C(2004) 4221 final of 26 October 2004 relating to a
proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case COMP/F-1/38.338 —
PO/Needles) and, in the alternative, for annulment or reduction
of the fine imposed on the applicants.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Annuls Commission Decision C(2004) 4221 final of 26 October
2004 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case
COMP/F-1/38.338 — PO/Needles) in so far as the Decision
finds that the applicants infringed Article 81(1) EC after 13 March
1997;

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber)
of 12 September 2007 — UFEX and Others v Commission
of the European Communities

(Case T-60/05) (1)

express

(Competition — Abuse of a dominant position — Interna-
tional
courier market — Decision dismissing
complaint — Annulment by Community judicature of decision
dismissing complaint — Re-examination and dismissal anew
of complaint — Public undertaking)

(2007/C 247/48)

Language of the case: French

Parties

(Roissy-en-
Applicants: Union française de l'express
France, France), DHL Express (France) SAS,
formerly DHL
International SA (Roissy-en-France); Federal express international
(France) SNC (Gennevilliers, France); and CRIE SA,
(Asnières,
France) (represented by: É. Morgan de Rivery and J. Derenne,
lawyers)

(UFEX)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented initially by A. Bouquet and O. Beynet,
then by A.
Bouquet and V. Di Bucci, agents)

Interveners in support of the defendant: Chronopost SA, (Issy-les-
Moulineaux, France), represented by D. Berlin,
lawyer and La
Poste, (Paris, France), represented by H. Lehman, lawyer

Re:

of Commission

(2004)
Annulment
D/205294 of 19 November 2004 rejecting the action brought
by the applicants against La Poste and the French Government
concerning the international express courier market in France.

SG-Greffe

decision