CELEX: 62008TA0588
Language: en
Date: 2013-03-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-588/08: Judgment of the General Court of 14 March 2013 — Dole Food and Dole Germany v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market in bananas — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Concept of a concerted practice having an anti-competitive object — Information exchange system — Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based — Rights of the defence — Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Gravity of the infringement)

27.4.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 123/15
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 March 2013 — Dole Food and Dole Germany v Commission
   (Case T-588/08) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market in bananas - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Concept of a concerted practice having an anti-competitive object - Information exchange system - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based - Rights of the defence - Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Gravity of the infringement)
   2013/C 123/25
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Dole Food Company, Inc. (Westlake Village, California, United States); and Dole Germany OHG (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by: J.-F. Bellis, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented: initially by X. Lewis and M. Kellerbauer, and subsequently by M. Kellerbauer and P. Van Nuffel, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2008) 5955 final of 15 October 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC (Case COMP/39.188 — Bananas)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Dole Food Company, Inc. and Dole Germany OHG to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 44, 21.2.2009.