CELEX: 62006TA0055
Language: en
Date: 2011-11-16 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-55/06 and T-66/06: Judgment of the General Court of 16 November 2011 — RKW and JM Gesellschaft für industrielle Beteiligungen v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Plastic industrial bags sector — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Fines — Guidelines for the calculation of fines — Maximum limit of 10 % of turnover — Implementation — Legality — Proportionality — Equal treatment — Single and continuous infringement — Attenuating circumstances — Exclusively passive role — Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based — Imputability of unlawful conduct)

7.1.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/9
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 November 2011 — RKW and JM Gesellschaft für industrielle Beteiligungen v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-55/06 and T-66/06) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Plastic industrial bags sector - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Fines - Guidelines for the calculation of fines - Maximum limit of 10 % of turnover - Implementation - Legality - Proportionality - Equal treatment - Single and continuous infringement - Attenuating circumstances - Exclusively passive role - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based - Imputability of unlawful conduct)
   2012/C 6/12
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: RKW SE, formerly RKW AG Rheinische Kunststoffwerke (Worms, Germany), and JM Gesellschaft für industrielle Beteiligungen mbH & Co. KGaA (Worms) (represented by: H.-J. Hellmann, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre and R. Sauer, acting as Agents, assisted by M. Núñez-Müller, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2005) 4634 final of 30 November 2005 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case COMP/F/38.354 — Industrial bags) and, in the alternative, for reduction of the fine imposed on the applicants.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders RKW SE and JM Gesellschaft für industrielle Beteiligungen mbH & Co. KGaA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 96, 22.4.2006.