CELEX: 62017TA0249
Language: en
Date: 2020-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-249/17: Judgment of the General Court of 5 October 2020 — Casino, Guichard-Perrachon and AMC v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Administrative procedure — Decision ordering an inspection — Plea of illegality against Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 — Right to an effective remedy — Equality of arms — Obligation to state reasons — Right to inviolability of the home — Sufficiently strong evidence — Proportionality)

30.11.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 414/30
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 5 October 2020 — Casino, Guichard-Perrachon and AMC v Commission
      (Case T-249/17) (1)
      
      (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Administrative procedure - Decision ordering an inspection - Plea of illegality against Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 - Right to an effective remedy - Equality of arms - Obligation to state reasons - Right to inviolability of the home - Sufficiently strong evidence - Proportionality)
      (2020/C 414/49)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Casino, Guichard-Perrachon (Saint-Étienne, France) and Achats Marchandises Casino SAS (AMC), formerly EMC Distribution (Vitry-sur-Seine, France) (represented by: D. Théophile, I. Simic, O. de Juvigny, T. Reymond, A. Sunderland and G. Aubron, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Mongin, A. Dawes and I. Rogalski, acting as Agents, and by F. Ninane, lawyer)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: S. Boelaert, S. Petrova and O. Segnana, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 263 TFEU, seeking annulment of Commission Decision C(2017) 1054 (final) of 9 February 2017 ordering Casino, Guichard-Perrachon and all the companies directly or indirectly controlled by it to submit to an inspection in accordance with Article 20(1) and (4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 (Case AT. 40466 — Tute 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls Article 1(b) of Commission Decision C(2017) 1054 (final) of 9 February 2017 ordering Casino, Guichard-Perrachon and all the companies directly or indirectly controlled by it to submit to an inspection in accordance with Article 20(1) and (4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 (Case AT.40466 — Tute 1);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Dismisses the remainder of the action;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Casino, Guichard-Perrachon and Achats Marchandises Casino SAS (AMC), the European Commission and the Council of the European Union each to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 221, 10.7.2017.