CELEX: 62006TJ0068
Language: en
Date: 2011-11-16 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 November 2011. # Stempher BV and Koninklijke Verpakkingsindustrie Stempher CV v European Commission. # Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Plastic industrial bags sector - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Fines - Limitation period - Proof of the infringement. # Case T-68/06.

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 16 November 2011 – Stempher and Koninklijke Verpakkingsindustrie Stempher
            v Commission
      (Case T-68/06)
      Competition – Agreements, decisions and concerted practices – Plastic industrial bags sector – Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC – Fines – Limitation period – Proof of the infringement
      1.                     Competition – Administrative procedure – Commission decision finding an infringement – Burden of proving the infringement
            and its duration on the Commission – Extent of the burden of proof (Art. 81(1) EC) (see paras 25-26)
      2.                     Competition – Administrative procedure – Time-limit with regard to proceedings – Consequences (Art. 81(1) EC; Council Regulation
            No 1/2003, Art. 25) (see para. 42)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment in part and for amendment of Commission Decision C(2005) 4634 final of 30 November 2005 relating
                  to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case COMP/F/38.354 – Industrial bags).
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Annuls Commission Decision C(2005) 4634 final of 30 November 2005 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case COMP/F/38.354
                     – Industrial bags) in so far as it concerns Stempher BV and Koninklijke Verpakkingsindustrie Stempher CV;
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the European Commission to pay the costs.