CELEX: 62010TA0413
Language: en
Date: 2015-07-15 00:00:00
Title: Cases T-413/10 and T-414/10: Judgment of the General Court of 15 July 2015 — Socitrel v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — European prestressing steel market — Price fixing, market sharing and exchanging of sensitive commercial information — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU — Cooperation during the administrative procedure — 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Reasonable time)

14.9.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 302/37
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 15 July 2015 — Socitrel v Commission
   (Cases T-413/10 and T-414/10) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - European prestressing steel market - Price fixing, market sharing and exchanging of sensitive commercial information - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU - Cooperation during the administrative procedure - 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Reasonable time))
   (2015/C 302/46)
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Socitrel — Sociedade Industrial de Trefilaria, SA (Trofa, Portugal) (represented by: F. Proença de Carvalho and T. Faria, lawyers) (Case T-413/10); and Companhia Previdente — Sociedade de Controle de Participações Financeiras, SA (Lisbon, Portugal) (represented by: D. Proença de Carvalho and J. Caimoto Duarte, lawyers) (Case T-414/10)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, P. Costa de Oliveira and V. Bottka, Agents, and M. Marques Mendes, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment and alteration of Commission Decision C(2010) 4387 final of 30 June 2010 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (case COMP/38344 — Prestressing Steel), amended by Commission Decision C(2010) 6676 final of 30 September 2010, and by Commission Decision C(2011) 2269 final of 4 April 2011.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Joins Cases T-413/10 and T-414/10 for the purposes of the judgment;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the actions;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Socitrel — Sociedade Industrial de Trefilaria, SA and Companhia Previdente — Sociedade de Controle de Participações Financeiras, SA to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission, including those relating to the proceedings for interim measures.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 317, 20.11.2010.