CELEX: 62008TA0406
Language: en
Date: 2013-06-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-406/08: Judgment of the General Court of 18 June 2013 — ICF v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — World market in aluminium fluoride — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement — Price-fixing and market-sharing — Evidence of the infringement — Rights of defence — Consistency between the statement of objections and the contested decision — Fines — 2006 Guidelines on fines — Euro-Mediterranean Agreement)

3.8.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 225/61
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 18 June 2013 — ICF v Commission
   (Case T-406/08) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - World market in aluminium fluoride - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement - Price-fixing and market-sharing - Evidence of the infringement - Rights of defence - Consistency between the statement of objections and the contested decision - Fines - 2006 Guidelines on fines - Euro-Mediterranean Agreement)
   2013/C 225/136
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Industries chimiques du fluor (ICF) (Tunis, Tunisia) (represented: initially by M. van der Woude and T. Hennen and subsequently by P. Wytinck and D. Gillet, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: É. Gippini Fournier, K. Mojzesowicz and N. von Lingen, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for the annulment of Commission Decision C(2008) 3043 of 25 June 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81[EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (COMP/39.180 — Aluminium fluoride), concerning a worldwide price-fixing and market-sharing cartel on the world aluminium fluoride market and, in the alternative, reduction of the fine imposed on the applicant.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Industries chimiques du fluor to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 44, 21.2.2009.