CELEX: 62015TA0522
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-522/15: Judgment of the General Court of 11 July 2019 — CCPL and Others v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Retail food packaging market — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU — Attributability of unlawful conduct — 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Value of sales — Ceiling of the fine — Proportionality — Equal treatment — Ability to pay)

30.9.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 328/37
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 11 July 2019 — CCPL and Others v Commission
      (Case T-522/15) (1)
      
      (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Retail food packaging market - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU - Attributability of unlawful conduct - 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Value of sales - Ceiling of the fine - Proportionality - Equal treatment - Ability to pay)
      (2019/C 328/39)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: CCPL — Consorzio Cooperative di Produzione e Lavoro SC (Reggio Emilia, Italy), Coopbox group SpA (Reggio Emilia), Poliemme Srl (Reggio Emilia), Coopbox Hispania, SL (Lorca, Spain), Coopbox Eastern s. r. o. (Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia) (represented by: S. Bariatti and E. Cucchiara, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by F. Jimeno Fernández, A. Biolan and P. Rossi, and subsequently by F. Jimeno Fernandez, P. Rossi and L. Malferrari, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for, principally, the partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2015) 4336 final of 24 June 2015 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT.39563 — Retail food packaging) and, in the alternative, for the reduction of the fines imposed on the applicants.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls Article 2(1)(f) and (g), Article 2(d) and (e) and Article 2(4)(c) and (d) of Commission Decision C(2015) 4336 final of 24 June 2015 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT.39563 — Retail food packaging);
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the European Commission to pay the costs, including those of the application for interim measures.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 354, 26.10.2015.