CELEX: 62015CA0090
Language: en
Date: 2017-02-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-90/15 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 February 2017 — Hansen & Rosenthal KG, H&R Wax Company Vertrieb GmbH v European Commission (Appeal — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — European market for paraffin wax and the German market for slack wax — Price-fixing and market-sharing — Evidence of the infringement — Unlimited jurisdiction — Distortion of evidence — Obligation to state reasons — Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 — Article 23(2) — Calculation of the amount of the fine — Principle of legality — The 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Principle of proportionality)

10.4.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 112/4
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 February 2017 — Hansen & Rosenthal KG, H&R Wax Company Vertrieb GmbH v European Commission
   (Case C-90/15 P) (1)
   
   ((Appeal - Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - European market for paraffin wax and the German market for slack wax - Price-fixing and market-sharing - Evidence of the infringement - Unlimited jurisdiction - Distortion of evidence - Obligation to state reasons - Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 - Article 23(2) - Calculation of the amount of the fine - Principle of legality - The 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Principle of proportionality))
   (2017/C 112/05)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellants: Hansen & Rosenthal KG, H&R Wax Company Vertrieb GmbH (represented by: J. Schulte, M. Dallmann and K. Künstner, lawyers)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: R. Sauer, C. Vollrath and L. Wildpanner, acting as Agents, and by A. Böhlke, lawyer)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dimsisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Hansen & Rosenthal KG and H&R Wax Company Vertrieb GmbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 146, 4.5.2015.