CELEX: 62008TA0551
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-551/08: Judgment of the General Court of 12 December 2014  — H&R ChemParm v Commission (Competition — Agreements — Paraffin waxes market — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price fixing — Proof of the infringement — 2006 Guidelines for calculating the amount of fines — Reference period — Calculation of the value of sales — Gravity of the infringement — Cartel during the period of the infringement — Equal treatment — Proportionality)

9.2.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 46/39
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 December 2014 — H&R ChemParm v Commission
   (Case T-551/08) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Agreements - Paraffin waxes market - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price fixing - Proof of the infringement - 2006 Guidelines for calculating the amount of fines - Reference period - Calculation of the value of sales - Gravity of the infringement - Cartel during the period of the infringement - Equal treatment - Proportionality))
   (2015/C 046/46)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: H&R ChemParm GmbH (Salzbergen, Germany) (represented by: initially M. Klusmann, lawyer, and S. Thomas, professor, then M. Klusmann)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Antoniadis and R. Sauer, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Primarily, an application for annulment of Commission Decision C (2008) 5476 final of 1 October 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/39.181 — Candle Waxes), in that it concerns the applicant, and, in the alternative, an application for a reduction of the amount of the fine imposed on it.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders H&R ChemPharm GmbH to bear its own costs and those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders H&R ChemPharm GmbH to refund the General Court the sum of EUR 10  000 under Article 90(a) of its Rules of Procedure.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 55, 7.3.2009.