CELEX: 62006TA0370
Language: en
Date: 2012-09-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-370/06: Judgment of the General Court of 27 September 2012 — Kuwait Petroleum and Others v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Netherlands market in road pavement bitumen — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Fines — Cooperation during the administrative procedure — Significant added value — Equal treatment — Rights of the defence)

17.11.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 355/19
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 27 September 2012 — Kuwait Petroleum and Others v Commission
   (Case T-370/06) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Netherlands market in road pavement bitumen - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Fines - Cooperation during the administrative procedure - Significant added value - Equal treatment - Rights of the defence)
   2012/C 355/38
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (Shuwaikh, Kuwait), Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd (Woking, United Kingdom) and Kuwait Petroleum (Nederland) BV (Rotterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: D. Hull, Solicitor, and G. Berrisch, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, acting as Agent, and by L. Gyselen, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   APPLICATION, principally, for annulment of Commission Decision C(2006) 4090 final of 13 September 2006 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case COMP/F/38.456 — Bitumen (Netherlands)), and, in the alternative, for reduction of the fine imposed on the applicants by that decision.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Kuwait Petroleum Corp., Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd and Kuwait Petroleum (Nederland) BV to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 20, 27.1.2007.