CELEX: 62006CA0510
Language: en
Date: 2009-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Case C-510/06 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 19 March 2009 — Archer Daniels Midland Co. v Commission of the European Communities (Appeal — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Sodium gluconate market — Fines — Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Community competition policy — Equal treatment — Turnover to be taken into account — Attenuating circumstances)

16.5.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 113/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 19 March 2009 — Archer Daniels Midland Co. v Commission of the European Communities
   (Case C-510/06 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Sodium gluconate market - Fines - Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Community competition policy - Equal treatment - Turnover to be taken into account - Attenuating circumstances)
   2009/C 113/05
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Archer Daniels Midland Co. (represented by: M. Garcia, Solicitor)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: A. Bouquet and X. Lewis, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 27 September 2006 in Case T-329/01 Archer Daniels Midland Co. v Commission, by which the Court dismissed an action for annulment of Articles 1 and 3 of Commission Decision C(2001)2931 final of 2 October 2001 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/E-1/36.756 — Sodium Gluconate) and, in the alternative, for a reduction in the fine imposed on the applicant
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Archer Daniels Midland Co. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 56, 10.3.2007.