CELEX: 62008TA0427
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-427/08: Judgment of the General Court of 15 December 2010 — CEAHR v Commission (Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Abuse of dominant position — Decision rejecting a complaint — Refusal of Swiss watch producers to supply spare parts to independent watch repairers — Community interest — Relevant market — Primary market and after market — Duty to give reasons — Manifest error of assessment)

5.2.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 38/11
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 15 December 2010 — CEAHR v Commission
   (Case T-427/08) (1)
   
   (Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Abuse of dominant position - Decision rejecting a complaint - Refusal of Swiss watch producers to supply spare parts to independent watch repairers - Community interest - Relevant market - Primary market and after market - Duty to give reasons - Manifest error of assessment)
   2011/C 38/16
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Confédération européenne des associations d’horlogers-réparateurs (CEAHR) (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: P. Mathijsen, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: X. Lewis and F. Ronkes Agerbeek, and subsequently by F. Ronkes Agerbeek and F. Castilla Contreras, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Richemont International SA (Bellevue, Switzerland) (represented by J. Ysewyn, lawyer, and H. Crossley, Solicitor)
   
      Re:
   
   Annulment of Commission Decision C(2008) 3600 of 10 July 2008 rejecting the complaint lodged by the applicant in Case COMP/E-l/39097
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision C(2008) 3600 of 10 July 2008 in Case COMP/E-1/39097;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Richemont International SA to pay, in addition to its own costs, those incurred by the Confédération européenne des associations d’horlogers-réparateurs (CEAHR) as a result of the intervention;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay, in addition to its own costs, the remainder of those incurred by the CEAHR.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 313, 6.12.2008.