CELEX: 62008TA0348
Language: en
Date: 2008-08-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-348/08: Judgment of the General Court of 25 October 2011 — Aragonesas Industrias y Energía v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Sodium chlorate market — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement — Action for annulment — Market-sharing — Price-fixing — Body of evidence — Date of the evidence — Statements of competitors — Acknowledgment — Duration of the infringement — Fines — Gravity of the infringement — Mitigating circumstances)

3.12.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 355/15
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 25 October 2011 — Aragonesas Industrias y Energía v Commission
   (Case T-348/08) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Sodium chlorate market - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement - Action for annulment - Market-sharing - Price-fixing - Body of evidence - Date of the evidence - Statements of competitors - Acknowledgment - Duration of the infringement - Fines - Gravity of the infringement - Mitigating circumstances)
   2011/C 355/23
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Aragonesas Industrias y Energía, SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: I.S. Forrester QC, and K. Struckmann, P. Lindfelt and J. Garcia-Nieto Esteva, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Biolan, J. Bourke and R. Sauer, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application, primarily, for the annulment of Commission Decision C(2008) 2626 final of 11 June 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/38.695 — Sodium chlorate) to the extent to which it concerns Aragonesas Industrias y Energía and, in the alternative, for the annulment or a substantial reduction of the fine imposed on it in that decision
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Article 1(g) of Commission Decision C(2008) 2626 final of 11 June 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/38.695 — Sodium chlorate) in so far as the Commission of the European Communities found therein an infringement by Aragonesas Industrias y Energía, SAU, from 16 December 1996 to 27 January 1998 and from 1 January 1999 to 9 February 2000;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Annuls Article 2(f) of Decision C(2008) 2626 final in so far as its sets the amount of the fine at EUR 9 900 000;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders Aragonesas Industrias y Energía to bear a third of its own costs and half of those incurred by the Commission;
            
         
               5.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to bear half of its own costs and two thirds of those incurred by Aragonesas Industrias y Energía.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 285, 8.11.2008.