CELEX: 62011CA0290
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-290/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 May 2012 — Comap SA v European Commission (Appeal — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Copper and copper alloy fittings sector — Commission decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Fines — Duration of the infringement — Concept of ‘continuity’ )

16.6.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 174/13
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 May 2012 — Comap SA v European Commission
   (Case C-290/11 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Copper and copper alloy fittings sector - Commission decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Fines - Duration of the infringement - Concept of ‘continuity’)
   2012/C 174/19
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Comap SA (represented by: A. Wachsmann and S. de Guigné, lawyers)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: C. Giolito, agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal lodged against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 24 March 2011 in Case T-377/06 Comap v Commission, by which the General Court dismissed the action for annulment in part of Commission Decision C(2006) 4180 final of 20 September 2006 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/F 1/38.121 — FITTINGS) — Copper and copper alloy fittings sector — Infringement of the right to an independent and impartial tribunal — Infringement of the principle of strict interpretation of criminal law — Notion of ‘public distancing’ — Distortion of evidence — Failure to state reasons
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Comap SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 252, 27.8.2011.