CELEX: C2006/010/40
Language: en
Date: 2006-01-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-28/02: Order of the Court of First Instance of  17 October 2005  — First Data Corp. and Others v Commission of the European Communities (Competition — Article 81 EC — Visa payment card scheme — The  no-acquiring-without-issuing  rule — Negative clearance — Rule abolished during the proceedings — Legal interest in bringing proceedings — No need to adjudicate)

14.1.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 10/20
            
         Order of the Court of First Instance of 17 October 2005 — First Data Corp. and Others v Commission of the European Communities
   (Case T-28/02) (1)
   
   (Competition - Article 81 EC - Visa payment card scheme - The ‘no-acquiring-without-issuing’ rule - Negative clearance - Rule abolished during the proceedings - Legal interest in bringing proceedings - No need to adjudicate)
   (2006/C 10/40)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicants: First Data Corp. (Wilmington, Delaware, USA), FDR Ltd (Dover, Delaware, United States), and First Data Merchant Services Corp. (Sunrise, Florida, USA) (represented by: initially, P. Bos and M. Nissen, then P. Bos, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: initially, R. Wainwright, W. Wils and V. Superti, then R. Wainwright and T. Christoforou, Agents)
   Application for
   annulment of the fifth indent of Article 1 of Commission Decision 2001/782/EC of 9 August 2001 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case No COMP/29.373 — Visa International) (OJ 2001 L 293, p. 24)
   Operative part of the Order
   
               1.
            
            
               There is no need to adjudicate on this case.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The applicants and the Commission shall bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 109, 4.5.2002.