CELEX: C2006/294/83
Language: en
Date: 2006-12-02 00:00:00
Title: Case T-314/01: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 27 September 2006 –Avebe v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Sodium gluconate — Article 81 EC — Fine — Liability of the parent company for the unlawful conduct of an association without its own legal personality — Article 15(2) of Regulation No 17 — Rights of the defence — Exculpatory documents — Principle of proportionality — Obligation to state reasons)

2.12.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 294/39
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 27 September 2006 –Avebe v Commission
   (Case T-314/01) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Sodium gluconate - Article 81 EC - Fine - Liability of the parent company for the unlawful conduct of an association without its own legal personality - Article 15(2) of Regulation No 17 - Rights of the defence - Exculpatory documents - Principle of proportionality - Obligation to state reasons)
   (2006/C 294/83)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Coöperatieve Verkoop- en Productievereniging van Aardappelmeel en Derivaten Avebe BA (Veendam, Netherlands) (represented by: C. Dekker, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: A. Bouquet, A. Whelan and W. Wils, Agents, assisted by M. van der Woude, lawyer)
   Re:
   Annulment of Article 1 of Decision C(2001) 2931 of 2 October 2001 concerning a procedure under Article 81 of the Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case No COMP/E 1/36.756 — Sodium Gluconate), in so far as it pertains to the applicant or, in the alternative, annulment of Article 3 of that decision in so far as it pertains to the applicant
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Coöperatieve Verkoop- en Productievereniging van Aardappelmeel en Derivaten Avebe BA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 68, 16.3.2002.