CELEX: 62014TA0455
Language: en
Date: 2018-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-455/14: Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2018 — Pirelli & C. v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — European market for power cables — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU — Single and continuous infringement — Imputability of the infringement — Presumption — Obligation to state reasons — Fundamental rights — Proportionality — Equal treatment — Beneficium ordinis seu excussionis — Unlimited jurisdiction)

17.9.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 328/40
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2018 — Pirelli & C. v Commission
      (Case T-455/14) (1)
      
      ((Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - European market for power cables - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU - Single and continuous infringement - Imputability of the infringement - Presumption - Obligation to state reasons - Fundamental rights - Proportionality - Equal treatment - Beneficium ordinis seu excussionis - Unlimited jurisdiction))
      (2018/C 328/54)
      Language of the case: Italian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Pirelli & C. SpA (Milan, Italy) (represented initially by: M. Siragusa, F. Moretti, G. Rizza and P. Ferrari, and subsequently by M. Siragusa, F. Moretti, G. Rizza and A. Bardanzellu, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: C. Giolito, L. Malferrari and P. Rossi, and subsequently by H. van Vliet, L. Malferrari and P. Rossi, acting as Agents, and by P. Manzini, lawyer)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi Srl (Milan) (represented by: C. Tesauro, F. Russo and L. Armati, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for the annulment of Commission Decision C(2014) 2139 final of 2 April 2014 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 [TFEU] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT.39610 — Power cables) in so far as it concerns the applicant and, in the alternative, a reduction of the fine imposed on the applicant.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Pirelli & C. SpA to bear its own costs and to pay those of the European Commission;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Prysmian Cavi e Sistemi Srl to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 261, 11.8.2014.