CELEX: C2007/247/46
Language: en
Date: 2007-10-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-30/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 12 September 2007 — Prym and Prym Consumer v Commission (Competition — Cartels — European haberdashery market (needles) — Product market sharing — Geographic market sharing — Fine — Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Duty to state reasons — Gravity and duration of the infringement — Leniency notice)

20.10.2007   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 247/29
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 12 September 2007 — Prym and Prym Consumer v Commission
   (Case T-30/05) (1)
   
   (Competition - Cartels - European haberdashery market (needles) - Product market sharing - Geographic market sharing - Fine - Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Duty to state reasons - Gravity and duration of the infringement - Leniency notice)
   (2007/C 247/46)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicants: William Prym GmbH & Co. KG (Stolberg, Germany) and Prym Consumer GmbH & Co. KG (Stolberg) (represented by: H. Meyer-Lindemann, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre and K. Mojzesowicz, acting as Agents)
   Re:
   Application, principally, for annulment of Commission Decision C(2004) 4221 final of 26 October 2004 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case COMP/F-1/38.338 — PO/Needles) in so far as it relates to the applicants, and, in the alternative, for annulment or reduction of the fine imposed on the applicants.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Sets the amount of the fine imposed on William Prym GmbH & Co. KG and Prym Consumer GmbH & Co. KG under Article 2 of Commission Decision C(2004) 4221 final of 26 October 2004 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case COMP/F-1/38.338 — PO/Needles) at EUR 27 million;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the application;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders William Prym and Prym Consumer to bear 90 % of their own costs and to pay 90 % of the costs incurred by the Commission, and the Commission to bear 10 % of its own costs and to pay 10 % of the costs incurred by William Prym and Prym Consumer.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 106 of 30.4.2005.