CELEX: 62009TA0352
Language: en
Date: 2012-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-352/09: Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 12 December 2012 — Novácke chemické závody v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market for calcium carbide and magnesium for the steel and gas industries in the EEA, with the exception of Ireland, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price-fixing and market-sharing — Fines — Obligation to state reasons — Proportionality — Equal treatment — 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Ability to pay)

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 32/15
            
         Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 12 December 2012 — Novácke chemické závody v Commission
   (Case T-352/09) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market for calcium carbide and magnesium for the steel and gas industries in the EEA, with the exception of Ireland, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price-fixing and market-sharing - Fines - Obligation to state reasons - Proportionality - Equal treatment - 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Ability to pay)
   2013/C 32/22
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Novácke chemické závody a.s. (Nováky, Slovakia) (represented initially by: A. Černejová, and subsequently by M. Bol’oš and L. Bányaiová, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, N. von Lingen and A. Tokár, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Slovak Republic (represented by: B. Ricziová, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2009) 5791 final of 22 July 2009 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/39.396 — Calcium carbide and magnesium based reagents for the steel and gas industries), in so far as it concerns the applicant, and, in the alternative, cancellation or a reduction of the fine imposed on the applicant by that decision.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Novácke chemické závody a.s. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Slovak Republic to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 267, 7.11.2009.