CELEX: 62011CO0507
Language: en
Date: 2012-04-20 00:00:00
Title: Order of the President of the Court of 20 April 2012. # Fapricela - Indústria de Trefilaria SA v European Commission. # Appeal - Application for interim measures - Competition. # Case C-507/11 P(R).

Order of the President of the Court of 20 April 2012 —Fapricela v Commission(Case C‑507/11 P(R))
      Application for interim measures — Competition — Decision of the Commission imposing a fine — Bank guarantee — Application for suspension of operation of a measure — Financial damage — Lack of exceptional circumstances — Lack of urgency
      1.                     Applications for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Suspension of operation of the obligation to provide
            a bank guarantee as a condition for not proceeding to immediate recovery of a fine imposed — Conditions for granting — Serious
            and irreparable damage — Impossible to obtain a bank guarantee — Extent of the burden of proof (Art. 278 TFEU) (see paras
            33-36, 41, 53-56)
      2.                     Applications for interim measures — Procedure — Whether appropriate to hear the parties — Whether appropriate to admit additional
            observations and documents after the ending of the written or oral procedure — Discretion of the judge hearing the application
            for interim relief (Art. 278 TFEU and 279 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 39, first para., and 53, first para.;
            Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 105) (see paras 49-51)
      3.                     Applications for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Suspension of operation of the obligation to provide
            a bank guarantee as a condition for not proceeding to immediate recovery of a fine imposed — Conditions for granting — Serious
            and irreparable damage — Taking account of the situation of the group to which the undertaking belongs and of its shareholders —
            Necessity of providing, at the time of making the application, information concerning the financial capacity of the undertaking’s
            shareholders (Art. 278 TFEU) (see paras 67-69)
      4.                     Appeals — Grounds — Plea raised against a ground of the judgment not necessary in order for the operative part to be founded —
            Plea ineffective (see para. 72)
      Re: 
      
         Appeal against the judgment of the General Court of 15 July 2011 in Case T‑398/10 R 
               Fapricela 
               v 
               Commission, 
               by which that court dismissed an application for suspension of the operation of Commission Decision C(2010) 4387 final of
                  30 June 2010 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/38.344 — Pre-stressing
                  steel), inter alia, in so far as it imposes the obligation to set up a bank guarantee in order to avoid immediate recovery
                  of the fine imposed under Article 2 of that decision.
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
         
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                  	Fapricela — Indústria de Trefilaria SA is ordered to pay the costs.