CELEX: 62011CJ0289
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-03 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 May 2012. # Legris Industries SA v European Commission. # Appeal - Competition - Cartels - Copper fittings and Copper alloy fittings Sector -Commission decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Fines - Parent companies and subsidiaries - Whether unlawful conduct attributable. # Case C-289/11 P.

Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 May 2012 —Legris Industries v Commission(Case C‑289/11 P)
      Appeal — Competition — Cartels — Copper fittings and copper alloy fittings sector — Commission decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Fines — Parent companies and subsidiaries — Imputability of the unlawful conduct
      1.                     Appeals — Grounds — Plea submitted for the first time in the context of the appeal — Inadmissibility — Entry into force of
            the Treaty of Lisbon — New fact warranting the late introduction of a head of claim based on breach of the right to a fair
            hearing — Excluded (Art. 6(2) TEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 47; Statute of the Court of Justice,
            Art. 58; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 42(2) and 113(2)) (see paras 33, 35, 36)
      2.                     Competition — Rules of the Union — Infringements — Attribution — Parent company and subsidiaries — Unilateral conduct — Criteria
            for assessment — Presumption that a parent company exerts a decisive influence over its wholly-owned subsidiaries — Rebuttable —
            Burden of proof (Art. 101 TFEU; Council Regulation No 1/2003, Art. 23(2)) (see paras 45‑47)
      3.                     Appeals — Grounds — Mistaken assessment of the facts — Inadmissibility — Review by the Court of the findings of fact — Possible
            only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first
            para.) (see paras 51, 53)
      Re: 
      
         Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 24 March 2011 in Case T‑376/06 
               Legris Industries
                v 
               Commission
               , by which that court dismissed the action for partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2006) 4180 final of 20 September
                  2006 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/F‑1/38.121 — Fittings) —
                  Copper Fittings and Copper Alloy Fittings Sector — Infringement of the right of access to an independent and impartial tribunal —
                  Imputability of the unlawful conduct — Breach of the principles of equal treatment, personal liability and the principle that
                  the penalty must be specific to the offender — Distortion of evidence.
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the appeal;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Legris Industries SA to pay the costs.