CELEX: 62008TA0418
Language: en
Date: 2013-04-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-418/08: Judgment of the General Court of 12 April 2013 — OSA v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Copyright relating to public performance of musical works via the internet, satellite and cable retransmission — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Sharing of the geographic market — Bilateral agreements between national collecting societies — Concerted practices precluding the possibility of granting multi-territory and multi-repertoire licences — Proof — Presumption of innocence)

1.6.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 156/31
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 April 2013 — OSA v Commission
   (Case T-418/08) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Copyright relating to public performance of musical works via the internet, satellite and cable retransmission - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Sharing of the geographic market - Bilateral agreements between national collecting societies - Concerted practices precluding the possibility of granting multi-territory and multi-repertoire licences - Proof - Presumption of innocence)
   2013/C 156/54
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním o.s. (OSA) (Prague, Czech Republic) (represented by: M. Favart, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre and A. Biolan, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the applicant: International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) (represented by J.-F. Bellis and K. Van Hove, lawyers); and European Broadcasting Union (EBU) (Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland) (represented by D. Waelbroeck, lawyer, and D. Slater, Solicitor)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment in part of Commission Decision C(2008) 3435 final of 16 July 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/C2/38.698 — CISAC).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Article 3 of Commission Decision C(2008) 3435 final of 16 July 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/C2/38.698 — CISAC), in so far as it concerns Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním o.s. (OSA);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the action;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 313, 6.12.2008.