CELEX: 62012TA0175
Language: en
Date: 2015-03-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-175/12: Judgment of the General Court of 9 March 2015 — Deutsche Börse v Commission (Competition — Concentrations — Financial instruments sector — European derivatives market — Decision declaring that the concentration is incompatible with the internal market — Assessment of the effects of the transaction on competition — Efficiency gains — Commitments)

26.5.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 171/24
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 9 March 2015 — Deutsche Börse v Commission
   (Case T-175/12) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Concentrations - Financial instruments sector - European derivatives market - Decision declaring that the concentration is incompatible with the internal market - Assessment of the effects of the transaction on competition - Efficiency gains - Commitments))
   (2015/C 171/28)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Deutsche Börse AG (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (represented by: C. Zschocke, J. Beninca and T. Schwarze, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T. Christoforou, V. Bottka, N. Khan and B. Mongin, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Icap Securities Ltd (London, United Kingdom) (represented by: C.T. Riis-Madsen, lawyer, and S. Stephanou, Solicitor)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2012) 440 final of 1 February 2012, declaring a concentration to be incompatible with the internal market and the functioning of the EEA Agreement (Case No COMP/M.6166 — Deutsche Börse/NYSE Euronext).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders Deutsche Börse AG to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and by Icap Securities Ltd.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 174, 16.6.2012.