CELEX: 62011TA0289
Language: en
Date: 2013-09-06 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-289/11, T-290/11 and T-521/11: Judgment of the General Court of 6 September 2013 — Deutsche Bahn and Others v Commission (Competition — Administrative procedure — Decision ordering an inspection — Inspection powers of the Commission — Rights of the defence — Proportionality — Duty to state reasons)

19.10.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 304/15
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 6 September 2013 — Deutsche Bahn and Others v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-289/11, T-290/11 and T-521/11) (1)
   
   (Competition - Administrative procedure - Decision ordering an inspection - Inspection powers of the Commission - Rights of the defence - Proportionality - Duty to state reasons)
   2013/C 304/25
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Deutsche Bahn AG (Berlin, Germany); DB Mobility Logistics AG (Berlin); DB Energie GmbH (Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany); DB Netz AG (Frankfurt-am-Main); DB Schenker Rail GmbH (Mainz, Germany); DB Schenker Rail Deutschland AG (Mainz); Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße mbH (DUSS) (Bodenheim, Germany) (represented by: W. Deselaers, O. Mross and J. Brückner, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Malferrari, N. von Lingen and R. Sauer, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the form of order sought by the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially, in Cases T-289/11 and T-290/11, by: M. Muñoz Pérez, then, in Cases T-289/11, T-290/11 and T-521/11, by: S. Centeno Huerta, abogados del Estado); Council of the European Union (represented by: M. Simm and F. Florindo Gijón, acting as Agents); and EFTA Surveillance Authority (represented by: X.A. Lewis, M. Schneider and M. Moustakali, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Annulment of Commission Decisions C(2011)1774 of 14 March 2011, C(2011) 2365 of 30 March 2011 and C(2011) 5230 of 14 July 2011 ordering Deutsche Bahn AG and all its subsidiaries, to submit to inspections under Article 20(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003, (Cases COMP/39.678 and COMP/39.731).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the actions;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Deutsche Bahn AG, DB Mobility Logistics AG, DB Energie GmbH, DB Netz AG, DB Schenker Rail GmbH,; DB Schenker Rail Deutschland AG and Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße mbH (DUSS) to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission and to bear their own costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Council of the European Union, the EFTA Surveillance Authority and the Kingdom of Spain to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 238, 13.8.2011.