CELEX: 62005TA0038
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-38/05: Judgment of the General Court of 12 October 2011 — Agroexpansión v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Spanish market for the purchase and first processing of raw tobacco — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price-fixing and market sharing — Fines — Attributability of the unlawful conduct — Maximum limit of 10 % of turnover — Deterrent effect — Equal treatment — Mitigating circumstances — Cooperation)

26.11.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 347/26
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 October 2011 — Agroexpansión v Commission
   (Case T-38/05) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Spanish market for the purchase and first processing of raw tobacco - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price-fixing and market sharing - Fines - Attributability of the unlawful conduct - Maximum limit of 10 % of turnover - Deterrent effect - Equal treatment - Mitigating circumstances - Cooperation)
   2011/C 347/37
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Agroexpansión, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J. Folguera Crespo and P. Vidal Martínez, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, É. Gippini Fournier and J. Bourke, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for partial annulment of Decision C(2004) 4030 final of the Commission of 20 October 2004, relating to a proceeding under Article 81(1) [EC] (Case COMP/C.38.238/B.2 — Raw tobacco — Spain) and application for reduction in the amount of the fine imposed on the applicant in that decision.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Fixes the amount of the fine imposed on Agroexpansión, SA under Article 3 of Decision C(2004) 4030 final of the Commission of 20 October 2004, relating to a proceeding under Article 81(1) [EC] (Case COMP/C.38.238/B.2 — Raw tobacco — Spain) at EUR 2 430 000.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action to the remainder.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Agroexpansión to bear nine-tenths of its own costs and to pay nine-tenths of the costs incurred by the European Commission; orders the European Commission to bear one-tenth of its own costs and to pay one-tenth of the costs incurred by the applicant.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 82, 2.4.2005.