CELEX: 62018TA0343
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-343/18: Judgment of the General Court of 29 September 2021 — Tokin v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market for aluminium electrolytic capacitors and tantalum electrolytic capacitors — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement — Price coordination throughout the EEA — Statement of objections — 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Value of sales — Proportionality — Equal treatment — Gravity of the infringement — Mitigating circumstances)

22.11.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 471/35
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 29 September 2021 — Tokin v Commission
      (Case T-343/18) (1)
      
      (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market for aluminium electrolytic capacitors and tantalum electrolytic capacitors - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement - Price coordination throughout the EEA - Statement of objections - 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Value of sales - Proportionality - Equal treatment - Gravity of the infringement - Mitigating circumstances)
      (2021/C 471/48)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Tokin Corp. (Sendai, Japan) (represented by: C. Thomas, lawyer, and T. Yuen, Solicitor)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Cleenewerck de Crayencour, F. van Schaik and L. Wildpanner, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for, primarily, annulment of Commission Decision C(2018) 1768 final of 21 March 2018 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 [TFEU] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT.40136 — Capacitors), in so far as that decision imposes fines on the applicant, and, in the alternative, a reduction in the amount of those fines.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Tokin Corp. to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 294, 20.8.2018.