CELEX: 62004TA0116
Language: en
Date: 2009-05-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-116/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 6 May 2009 — Wieland-Werke v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market for copper industrial tubes — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price-fixing and market-sharing — Fines — Principle that penalties must have a sound legal basis — Size of the market concerned — Deterrent effect — Duration of the infringement — Cooperation)

4.7.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 153/32
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 6 May 2009 — Wieland-Werke v Commission
   (Case T-116/04) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market for copper industrial tubes - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price-fixing and market-sharing - Fines - Principle that penalties must have a sound legal basis - Size of the market concerned - Deterrent effect - Duration of the infringement - Cooperation)
   2009/C 153/60
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Wieland-Werke AG (Ulm, Germany) (represented by: R. Bechtold and U. Soltész, Lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented initially by: É. Gippini Fournier and H. Gading, and subsequently É. Gippini Fournier, O. Weber and K. Mojzesowicz, Lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Annulment or reduction of the fine imposed on the applicant under Article 2(a) of Commission Decision C(2003) 4820 final of 16 December 2003 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/E-1/38.240 — Industrial tubes).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Wieland-Werke AG to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 118, 30.4.2004.