CELEX: 62011CA0181
Language: en
Date: 2012-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-181/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 12 July 2012 — Compañía Española de Tabaco en Rama, SA (Cetarsa) v European Commission (Appeal — Competition — Agreements — Spanish market for the purchase and first processing of raw tobacco — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price fixing and market sharing — Fines — Equal treatment — Maximum limit of 10 % of turnover — Cooperation — Distortion of evidence — Manifest error of assessment — Failure to state reasons)

22.9.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 287/13
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 12 July 2012 — Compañía Española de Tabaco en Rama, SA (Cetarsa) v European Commission
   (Case C-181/11 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Competition - Agreements - Spanish market for the purchase and first processing of raw tobacco - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price fixing and market sharing - Fines - Equal treatment - Maximum limit of 10 % of turnover - Cooperation - Distortion of evidence - Manifest error of assessment - Failure to state reasons)
   2012/C 287/22
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Compañía Española de Tabaco en Rama, SA (Cetarsa) (represented by: M. Araujo Boyd, J. Buendía Sierra and Á. Givaja Sanz, abogados)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, E. Gippini Fournier and L. Malferrari, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal against the judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) in Case T-33/05 Cetarsa v Commission, by which that Court dismissed an application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2004) final of 20 October 2004, relating to a proceeding under Article 81(1) EC (Case COMP/C.38.238/B.2 — Raw Tobacco — Spain), and a cross-appeal by the Commission seeking to have the amount of the fine imposed on the applicant increased
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal and the cross-appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Compañía Española de Tabaco en Rama, SA (Cetarsa) to pay the costs of the appeal;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay the costs of the cross-appeal.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 186, 25.6.2011.