CELEX: 62007TA0496
Language: en
Date: 2013-09-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-496/07: Judgment of the General Court of 16 September 2013 — Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades and Others v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Spanish market for penetration bitumen — Annual market-sharing and price-fixing agreements — Rights of defence — Imputability of the unlawful conduct — Principle that penalties must be specific to the offender — Calculation of the amount of the fine — Res judicata)

16.11.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 336/14
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 September 2013 — Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades and Others v Commission
   (Case T-496/07) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Spanish market for penetration bitumen - Annual market-sharing and price-fixing agreements - Rights of defence - Imputability of the unlawful conduct - Principle that penalties must be specific to the offender - Calculation of the amount of the fine - Res judicata)
   2013/C 336/28
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades, SA, formerly Repsol Lubricantes YPF y Especialidades, SA (Madrid, Spain); Repsol Petróleo, SA (Madrid); and Repsol, SA, formerly Repsol YPF, SA (Madrid) (represented by: L. Ortiz Blanco, J. Buendía Sierra, M. Muñoz de Juan and Á. Givaja Sanz, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre and C. Urraca Caviedes, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2007) 4441 final of 3 October 2007 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case COMP-38.710 Bitumen (Spain)), and for reduction in the amount of the fine imposed on the applicant in that decision.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the claim of the European Commission seeking an increase of the amount of the fine;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades, SA, Repsol Petróleo, SA and Repsol, SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 64, 8.3.2008.