CELEX: 62012CB0581
Language: en
Date: 2013-11-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-581/12 P: Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 21 November 2013 — Kuwait Petroleum Corp., Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd, Kuwait Petroleum (Nederland) BV v European Commission (Appeals — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Netherlands market in road pavement bitumen — Setting of the gross price of road pavement bitumen — Setting of a rebate for road builders — 2002 Leniency Notice — Last paragraph of point 23(b) — Partial immunity — Evidence relating to facts previously unknown to the European Commission — Appeal manifestly inadmissible or manifestly unfounded)

7.4.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 102/5
            
         Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 21 November 2013 — Kuwait Petroleum Corp., Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd, Kuwait Petroleum (Nederland) BV v European Commission
   (Case C-581/12 P) (1)
   
   ((Appeals - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Netherlands market in road pavement bitumen - Setting of the gross price of road pavement bitumen - Setting of a rebate for road builders - 2002 Leniency Notice - Last paragraph of point 23(b) - Partial immunity - Evidence relating to facts previously unknown to the European Commission - Appeal manifestly inadmissible or manifestly unfounded))
   2014/C 102/06
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellants: Kuwait Petroleum Corp., Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd, Kuwait Petroleum (Nederland) BV (represented by: D. Hull, Solicitor, and G. Berrisch, Rechtsanwalt)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: F. Ronkes Agerbeek and P. Van Nuffel, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 27 September 2012 in Case T-370/06 Kuwait Petroleum and Others v Commission, by which the General Court dismissed an action seeking partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2006) 4090 final of 13 September 2006 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC (Case COMP/F/38.456 — Bitumen (Netherlands)) concerning agreements on the fixing of the gross price of road pavement bitumen in the Netherlands and on the fixing of a uniform minimum rebate for road-builders participating in the cartel and a smaller maximum rebate for other road builders — Reduction of the fine imposed on the appellants.
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   The Court
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Kuwait Petroleum Corp., Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd and Kuwait Petroleum (Nederland) BV to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 55, 23.2.2013.