CELEX: 62005TA0011
Language: en
Date: 2010-05-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-11/05: Judgment of the General Court of 19 May 2010 — Wieland-Werke and Others v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Copper plumbing tube industry — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Continuous and multiform infringement — Ne bis in idem principle — Fines — Actual impact on the market — Size of the relevant market — Duration of the infringement — Attenuating circumstances)

3.7.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 179/29
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 19 May 2010 — Wieland-Werke and Others v Commission
   (Case T-11/05) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Copper plumbing tube industry - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Continuous and multiform infringement - Ne bis in idem principle - Fines - Actual impact on the market - Size of the relevant market - Duration of the infringement - Attenuating circumstances)
   2010/C 179/47
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Wieland-Werke AG (Ulm, Germany); Buntmetall Amstetten GmbH (Amstetten, Austria); and Austria Buntmetall AG (Enzesfeld, Austria); (represented by: R. Bechtold and U. Soltész, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre and É. Gippini Fournier, Agents, and by G. Eickstädt, lawyer)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Council of the European Union (represented by: J. Huber and G. Kimberley, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application, first, for annulment of Commission Decision C(2004) 2826 of 3 September 2004 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/E-1/38.069 — Copper plumbing tubes); second, in the alternative, for reduction of the fines imposed on the applicants by that decision; and third, by way of counterclaim by the Commission, for those fines to be increased.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the European Commission’s counterclaim;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Wieland-Werke AG, Buntmetall Amstetten GmbH and Austria Buntmetall AG to bear their own costs and to pay 90 % of the costs incurred by the Commission;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to bear 10 % of its own costs;
            
         
               5.
            
            
               Orders the Council of the European Union to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 93, 16.4.2005.