CELEX: C2007/155/37
Language: en
Date: 2007-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-289/01: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 24 May 2007 — Duales System Deutschland v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Collection and recovery system for packaging marketed in Germany bearing the Der Grüne Punkt logo — Decision granting exemption — Obligations imposed by the Commission to ensure competition — Exclusivity granted by the system operator to the collection undertakings used — Restriction of competition — Need to guarantee the access of competitors to the collection facilities used by the system operator — Commitments given by the system operator)

7.7.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/19
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 24 May 2007 — Duales System Deutschland v Commission
   (Case T-289/01) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Collection and recovery system for packaging marketed in Germany bearing the Der Grüne Punkt logo - Decision granting exemption - Obligations imposed by the Commission to ensure competition - Exclusivity granted by the system operator to the collection undertakings used - Restriction of competition - Need to guarantee the access of competitors to the collection facilities used by the system operator - Commitments given by the system operator)
   (2007/C 155/37)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Der Grüne Punkt — Duales System Deutschland GmbH, formerly Der Grüne Punkt — Duales System Deutschland AG (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: W. Deselaerts, B. Meyring, E. Wagner, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented initially by S. Rating, subsequently by P. Oliver, H. Gading and M. Schneider, and finally by W. Mölls and R. Sauer, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Landbell AG für Rückhol-Systeme (Mayence, Germany) (represented by: A. Rinne and A. Walz, lawyers)
   Re:
   Annulment of Article 3 of Commission Decision 2001/837/EC of 17 September 2001 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Cases COMP/34493 — DSD, COMP/37366 — Hofman + DSD, COMP/37299 — Edelhoff + DSD, COMP/37291 — Rechmann + DSD, COMP/37288 — ARGE and five other undertakings + DSD, COMP/37287 — AWG and five other undertakings + DSD, COMP/37526 — Feldhaus + DSD, COMP/37254 — Nehlsen + DSD, COMP/37252 — Schönmakers + DSD, COMP/37250 — Altvater + DSD, COMP/37246 — DASS + DSD, COMP/37245 — Scheele + DSD, COMP/37244 — SAK + DSD, COMP/37243 — Fischer + DSD, COMP/37242 — Trienekens + DSD, COMP/37267 — Interseroh + DSD) (OJ 2001 L 319, p. 1), or, in the alternative, annulment of that decision in its entirety and of the applicant's commitment reproduced in recital 72 of that decision.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
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               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant, Der Grüne Punkt — Duales System Deutschland GmbH, to bear three quarters of its own costs, three quarters of the costs incurred by the Commission, and the costs incurred by Landbell AG Rückhol-Systeme;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to bear a quarter of its own costs and a quarter of the costs incurred by the applicant.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 44, 16.2.2002.