CELEX: 62012TA0079
Language: en
Date: 2013-12-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-79/12: Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2013 — Cisco Systems and Messagenet v Commission (Competition — Concentrations — European markets for internet communications services — Decision declaring the concentration compatible with the internal market — Manifest errors of assessment — Obligation to state reasons)

1.2.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 31/9
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2013 — Cisco Systems and Messagenet v Commission
   (Case T-79/12) (1)
   
   (Competition - Concentrations - European markets for internet communications services - Decision declaring the concentration compatible with the internal market - Manifest errors of assessment - Obligation to state reasons)
   2014/C 31/15
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, California, United States) and Messagenet SpA (Milan, Italy) (represented by: L. Ortiz Blanco, J. Buendía Sierra, A. de Pablo and K. Jörgens, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: N. Khan, S. Noë and C. Hödlmayr, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Microsoft Corp. (Seattle, Washington, United States) (represented by: G. Berrisch, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2011) 7279 final of 7 October 2011 declaring compatible with the internal market the merger transaction involving the acquisition of control of Skype Global Sàrl by Microsoft Corp. (Case COMP/M.6281 — Microsoft/Skype).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Cisco Systems Inc. and Messagenet SpA to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and Microsoft Corp.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 109, 14.4.2012.