CELEX: 62019CA0450
Language: en
Date: 2021-01-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-450/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 14 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus — Finland) — Proceedings initiated by Kilpailu- ja kuluttajavirasto (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Competition — Article 101 TFEU — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Manipulation of the bidding procedure — Determination of the duration of the infringement period — Inclusion of the period during which the cartel members implemented the anticompetitive agreement — Economic effects of anticompetitive behaviour — Cessation of the infringement on the definitive award of the contract)

8.3.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 79/11
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 14 January 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein hallinto-oikeus — Finland) — Proceedings initiated by Kilpailu- ja kuluttajavirasto
      (Case C-450/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Competition - Article 101 TFEU - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Manipulation of the bidding procedure - Determination of the duration of the infringement period - Inclusion of the period during which the cartel members implemented the anticompetitive agreement - Economic effects of anticompetitive behaviour - Cessation of the infringement on the definitive award of the contract)
      (2021/C 79/12)
      Language of the case: Finnish
      
         Referring court
      
      Korkein hallinto-oikeus
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      Kilpailu- ja kuluttajavirasto
      
         Intervening parties: Eltel Group Oy, Eltel Networks Oy
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 101(1) TFEU must be interpreted as meaning that, where an undertaking which has allegedly participated in a single and continuous infringement of that provision, the most recent constituent element of which consists in the concerted submission with its competitors of a tender for the award of a public works contract, has won the contract and concluded with the contracting authority a works contract determining the essential characteristics of that contract and, in particular, the overall price to be paid for those works, the performance and payment of the price for which are staggered over time, the infringement period corresponds to the period up to the date of signature of the contract concluded between the undertaking and the contracting authority on the basis of the concerted bid submitted by that undertaking. It is for the national court to ascertain the date on which the essential characteristics of the relevant contract and, in particular, the total price to be paid for the work, have been definitively determined.
      
         (1)  OJ C 280, 19.8.2019.