CELEX: 62006CO0188
Language: en
Date: 2007-03-09 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 March 2007. # Schneider Electric SA v Commission of the European Communities. # Appeals - Concentrations between undertakings - Electricity distribution market - Decisions to initiate and close proceedings. # Case C-188/06 P.

Order of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 March 2007 – Schneider Electric v Commission
      (Case C‑188/06 P)
      Appeals – Concentrations between undertakings – Electricity distribution market – Decisions to initiate and close proceedings
      1.                     Appeals – Grounds – Review by the Court of the assessment of the evidence – Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence
            has been distorted (Art. 225 EC; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58) (see para. 28)
      2.                     Appeals – Grounds – Error of law pleaded not identified – Inadmissible (Art. 225 EC; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art.
            58; Rules of Procedure of the Court, Art. 112(1)(c)) (see paras 55, 78)
      3.                     Appeals – Pleas in law – Plea against a ground of the judgment not necessary to support its operative part – Plea inoperative
            (Art. 225 EC; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58) (see paras 64, 80)
      4.                     Competition – Concentrations – Examination by the Commission – Decision to open the detailed examination stage (Council Regulation
            No 4064/89, Art. 6(1)(c)) (see para. 72)
      Re:
      
         Appeal brought against the Order of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 31 January 2006 in Case T-48/03 
               Schneider Electric
                v 
               Commission
               , rejecting as inadmissible an application for annulment of the Commission’s Decision of 4 December 2002 to initiate a detailed
                  examination of the concentration between Schneider and Legrand (Case COMP/M.2283 – Schneider/Legrand II) and of the Commission’s
                  Decision of 13 December 2002 to close the proceedings examining the concentration.
               
            Operative part: 
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Schneider Electric SA is ordered to pay the costs.