CELEX: 62016TA0712
Language: en
Date: 2018-05-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-712/16: Judgment of the General Court of 16 May 2018 — Deutsche Lufthansa v Commission (Competition — Concentrations — Air transport market — Decision declaring a concentration compatible with the internal market subject to certain commitments — Request for a waiver of part of the obligations forming the subject matter of the commitments — Proportionality — Legitimate expectations — Principle of good administration — Misuse of powers)

201806150731955382018/C 231/287122016TC23120180702EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL20180516232422Case T-712/16: Judgment of the General Court of 16 May 2018 — Deutsche Lufthansa v Commission (Competition — Concentrations — Air transport market — Decision declaring a concentration compatible with the internal market subject to certain commitments — Request for a waiver of part of the obligations forming the subject matter of the commitments — Proportionality — Legitimate expectations — Principle of good administration — Misuse of powers)
 ---documentbreak--- C2312018EN2320120180516EN0028232242Judgment of the General Court of 16 May 2018 — Deutsche Lufthansa v Commission
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   ‛(Competition — Concentrations — Air transport market — Decision declaring a concentration compatible with the internal market subject to certain commitments — Request for a waiver of part of the obligations forming the subject matter of the commitments — Proportionality — Legitimate expectations — Principle of good administration — Misuse of powers)’2018/C 231/28Language of the case: English
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Deutsche Lufthansa AG (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: S. Völcker, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Biolan, H. Leupold and I. Zaloguin, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2016) 4964 final of 25 July 2016 rejecting the applicant’s request for a waiver of certain commitments rendered binding by the Commission Decision of 4 July 2005 approving the merger in Case COMP/M.3770 –– Lufthansa/Swiss.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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            Annuls, in so far as it concerns the Zurich-Stockholm route, Commission Decision C(2016) 4964 final of 25 July 2016 rejecting Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s request for a waiver of certain commitments rendered binding by the Commission decision of 4 July 2005 approving the merger in Case COMP/M.3770 –– Lufthansa/Swiss;
         
      
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            Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
         
      
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            Orders each party to bear its own costs.
         
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      )	OJ C 462, 12.12.2016.