CELEX: 62009TA0519
Language: en
Date: 2014-05-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-519/09: Judgment of the General Court of 21 May 2014  — Toshiba v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Power transformers market — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement — Market-sharing agreement — Proof of distancing from the cartel — Restriction of competition — Effect on trade — Barriers to entry — Fines — Basic amount — Reference year — Section 18 of the 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Use of a notional market share in the EEA market)

7.7.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 212/23
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 21 May 2014 — Toshiba v Commission
   (Case T-519/09) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Power transformers market - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement - Market-sharing agreement - Proof of distancing from the cartel - Restriction of competition - Effect on trade - Barriers to entry - Fines - Basic amount - Reference year - Section 18 of the 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Use of a notional market share in the EEA market))
   2014/C 212/26
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Toshiba Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) (represented by: J. MacLennan, Solicitor, A. Schulz, J. Jourdan and P. Berghe, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by J. Bourke and K. Mojzesowicz, and subsequently by K. Mojzesowicz and F. Ronkes Agerbeek, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision of 7 October 2009 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/39.129 — Power Transformers), and, in the alternative, for a reduction in the amount of the fine imposed on the applicant in that decision.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders Toshiba Corp. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 51, 27.2.2010.