CELEX: 62017CA0724
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-724/17: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 14 March 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein oikeus — Finland) — Vantaan kaupunki v Skanska Industrial Solutions Oy, NCC Industry Oy, Asfaltmix Oy (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Competition — Article 101 TFEU — Compensation for the damage caused by a cartel prohibited by that article — Determination of the undertakings liable to provide compensation — Succession of legal entities — Concept of ‘undertaking’ — Economic continuity test)

6.5.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/11
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 14 March 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Korkein oikeus — Finland) — Vantaan kaupunki v Skanska Industrial Solutions Oy, NCC Industry Oy, Asfaltmix Oy
      (Case C-724/17) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Competition - Article 101 TFEU - Compensation for the damage caused by a cartel prohibited by that article - Determination of the undertakings liable to provide compensation - Succession of legal entities - Concept of ‘undertaking’ - Economic continuity test)
      (2019/C 155/14)
      Language of the case: Finnish
      
         Referring court
      
      Korkein oikeus
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: Vantaan kaupunki
      
         Respondents: Skanska Industrial Solutions Oy, NCC Industry Oy, Asfaltmix Oy
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 101 TFEU must be interpreted as meaning that, in a case such as that in the main proceedings, in which all the shares in the companies which participated in a cartel prohibited by that article were acquired by other companies which have dissolved the former companies and continued their commercial activities, the acquiring companies may be held liable for the damage caused by the cartel in question.
      
         (1)  OJ C 83, 5.3.2018.