CELEX: C2006/212/02
Language: en
Date: 2006-09-02 00:00:00
Title: Case C-205/03 P: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 11 July 2006 — Federación Española de Empresa de Tecnología Sanitaria (FENIN), formerly Federación Nacional de Empresa de Instrumentación Científica, Médica, Técnica y Dental v Commission of the European Communities (Appeal — Competition — Management bodies of the Spanish national health system — Medical treatment — Definition of undertaking — Payment conditions imposed on suppliers of medical goods and equipment)

2.9.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 212/1
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 11 July 2006 — Federación Española de Empresa de Tecnología Sanitaria (FENIN), formerly Federación Nacional de Empresa de Instrumentación Científica, Médica, Técnica y Dental v Commission of the European Communities
   (Case C-205/03 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Competition - Management bodies of the Spanish national health system - Medical treatment - Definition of ‘undertaking’ - Payment conditions imposed on suppliers of medical goods and equipment)
   (2006/C 212/02)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Appellant: Federación Española de Empresa de Tecnología Sanitaria (FENIN), formerly Federación Nacional de Empresa de Instrumentación Científica, Médica, Técnica y Dental (represented by: J.-R. García-Gallardo Gil-Fournier and D. Domínguez Pérez, abogados)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: W. Wils and F. Castillo de la Torre, acting as Agents, and J. Rivas de Andrés and J. Gutiérrez Gisbert, abogados)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendants: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: M. Bethell, Agent, and G. Barling QC), Kingdom of Spain (represented by N. Díaz Abad, L. Fraguas Gadea and F. Díez Moreno, Agents)
   Re:
   Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber, Extended Composition) of 4 March 2003 in Case T-319/99 FENIN v Commission in which the Court dismissed the action for annulment brought by the appellant against the Commission's decision of 26 August 1999 (SG(99) D/7.040) relating to the organisations which manage the Spanish national health system concerning the conditions for payment imposed by those organisations on their suppliers of health products and other allegedly anti-competitive practices of such organisations — Definition of ‘undertaking’
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Federación Española de Empresas de Tecnología Sanitaria (FENIN) to pay the costs of these proceedings;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Kingdom of Spain to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 184, 02.08.2003.