CELEX: 62018TA0093
Language: en
Date: 2020-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-93/18: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — International Skating Union v Commission (Competition — Association of undertakings — Speed skating events — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU — Regulations of a sports federation — Balance between competition law and the specific nature of the sport — Sports betting — Court of Arbitration for Sport — Guidelines on the calculation of fines — Scope of territorial application of Article 101 TFEU — Restriction of competition by object — Corrective measures)

22.2.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 62/24
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2020 — International Skating Union v Commission
      (Case T-93/18) (1)
      
      (Competition - Association of undertakings - Speed skating events - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU - Regulations of a sports federation - Balance between competition law and the specific nature of the sport - Sports betting - Court of Arbitration for Sport - Guidelines on the calculation of fines - Scope of territorial application of Article 101 TFEU - Restriction of competition by object - Corrective measures)
      (2021/C 62/29)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: International Skating Union (Lausanne, Switzerland) (represented by: J.-F. Bellis, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: H. van Vliet, G. Meessen and F. van Schaik, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: Mark Jan Hendrik Tuitert (Hoogmade, Netherlands), Niels Kerstholt (Zeist, Netherlands), European Elite Athletes Association (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: B. Braeken and J. Versteeg, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFUE for annulment of Commission Decision C(2017) 8230 final, adopted on 8 December 2017 relating to proceedings under Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT/40208 — International Skating Union’s eligibility rules).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Annuls Articles 2 and 4 of Commission Decision C(2017) 8230 final, adopted on 8 December 2017 relating to proceedings under Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT/40208 — International Skating Unions’s eligibility rules), in so far as, by requiring the International Skating Union to put an end to the infringement established which is subject to a periodic penalty payment, the Commission refers to the arbitration rules and requires that they be amended in the event that the pre-authorisation system is maintained;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the International Skating Union and the European Commission to bear their own costs;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders the European Elite Athletes Association, Mr Mark Jan Hendrik Tuitert and Mr Niels Kerstholt to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 142, 23.4.2018.