CELEX: 62003TA0052
Language: en
Date: 2008-07-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-52/03: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 8 July 2008 — Knauf Gips v Commission (Competition — Cartels — Plasterboard market — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Access to the file — Single and continuous infringement — Liability — Fine — Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Cooperation during the administrative procedure)

15.8.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/40
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 8 July 2008 — Knauf Gips v Commission
   (Case T-52/03) (1)
   
   (Competition - Cartels - Plasterboard market - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Access to the file - Single and continuous infringement - Liability - Fine - Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Cooperation during the administrative procedure)
   (2008/C 209/68)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Knauf Gips KG, formerly Gebrüder Knauf Westdeutsche Gipswerke KG (Iphofen, Germany) (represented initially by M. Klusmann and F. Wiemer, and subsequently by M. Klusmann, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented initially by F. Castillo de la Torre and S. Rating, and subsequently by F. Castillo de la Torre and R. Sauer, Agents)
   Re:
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2005/471/EC of 27 November 2002 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] against BPB plc, Gebrüder Knauf Westdeutsche Gipswerke KG, Société Lafarge SA and Gyproc Benelux NV (Case No COMP/E-1/37.152 — Plasterboard) (OJ 2005 L 166, p. 8), or, in the alternative, reduction of the fine imposed on the applicant.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Knauf Gips KG to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 124, 24.5.2003.