Case T-338/17: Judgment of the General Court of 30 March 2022 — Air France v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market for airfreight — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU, Article 53 of the EEA Agreement and Article 8 of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on Air Transport — Coordination of elements of the price of airfreight services (fuel surcharge, security surcharge, payment of commission on surcharges) — Exchange of information — Territorial jurisdiction of the Commission — Single and continuous infringement — Conditions for granting immunity — Equal treatment — Obligation to state reasons — Amount of the fine — Value of sales — Gravity of the infringement — Duration of the participation in the infringement — Mitigating circumstances — Encouragement of the anticompetitive conduct by public authorities — Proportionality — Unlimited jurisdiction)
Date: 2022-03-30
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: additional duty, air transport, carriage of goods, cartel, control of restrictive practices, equal treatment, exchange of information, price agreement, principle of proportionality, sanction (EU)








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23.5.2022   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 207/28






Judgment of the General Court of 30 March 2022 — Air France v Commission
(Case T-338/17) (1)

(Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market for airfreight - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU, Article 53 of the EEA Agreement and Article 8 of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on Air Transport - Coordination of elements of the price of airfreight services (fuel surcharge, security surcharge, payment of commission on surcharges) - Exchange of information - Territorial jurisdiction of the Commission - Single and continuous infringement - Conditions for granting immunity - Equal treatment - Obligation to state reasons - Amount of the fine - Value of sales - Gravity of the infringement - Duration of the participation in the infringement - Mitigating circumstances - Encouragement of the anticompetitive conduct by public authorities - Proportionality - Unlimited jurisdiction)
(2022/C 207/36)
Language of the case: French

Parties


Applicant: Société Air France (Tremblay-en-France, France) (represented by: A. Wachsmann and A. de La Cotardière, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Dawes and C. Giolito, acting as Agents, and by N. Coutrelis, lawyer)

Re:

Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2017) 1742 final of 17 March 2017 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 TFEU, Article 53 of the EEA Agreement and Article 8 of the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on Air Transport (Case AT.39258 — Airfreight) in so far as it relates to the applicant and, in the alternative, for partial annulment of that decision and a reduction in the amount of the fine imposed on the applicant.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the action;










2.


Orders the European Commission to bear one third of its own costs;










3.


Orders Société Air France to bear its own costs and to pay two thirds of the costs incurred by the Commission.






(1)  OJ C 277, 21.8.2017.