CELEX: 62008TA0556
Language: en
Date: 2015-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-556/08: Judgment of the General Court of 25 March 2015 — Slovenská pošta v Commission (Competition — Abuse of dominant position — Slovakian traditional mail and hybrid mail services markets — Decision finding an infringement of Article 86(1) EC in conjunction with Article 82 EC — Exclusive right to distribute hybrid mail — Principle of sound administration — Obligation to state reasons — Right to be heard — Definition of the market — Extension of a monopoly — Article 86(2) EC — Legal certainty — Legitimate expectations)

11.5.2015   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/20
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 25 March 2015 — Slovenská pošta v Commission
   (Case T-556/08) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Abuse of dominant position - Slovakian traditional mail and hybrid mail services markets - Decision finding an infringement of Article 86(1) EC in conjunction with Article 82 EC - Exclusive right to distribute hybrid mail - Principle of sound administration - Obligation to state reasons - Right to be heard - Definition of the market - Extension of a monopoly - Article 86(2) EC - Legal certainty - Legitimate expectations))
   (2015/C 155/22)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Slovenská pošta a.s. (Banská Bystrica, Slovakia) (represented initially by O. Brouwer, C. Schillemans and M. Knapen, then by O. Brouwer and P. Schepens and, lastly, by O. Brouwer and A. Pliego Selie, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: R. Sauer, A. Tokár and A. Antoniadis, and subsequently by R. Sauer, A. Tokár and C. Vollrath, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Slovak Republic (represented by: B. Ricziová, Agent)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Cromwell a.s. (Bratislava, Slovakia); Slovak Mail Services a.s. (Bratislava); Prvá Doručovacia a.s. (Bratislava) (represented initially by M. Maier and P. Werner, and subsequently by P. Werner, lawyers); and ID Marketing Slovensko s.r.o., formerly TNT Post Slovensko s.r.o. (Bratislava) (represented initially by J. Ellison, Solicitor, and T. Rybár, lawyer, and subsequently by T. Rybár and I. Pecník, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2008) 5912 final of 7 October 2008 on the Slovakian postal legislation relating to hybrid mail services (Case COMP/39.562 — Slovakian postal law).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders Slovenská pošta a.s. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission, Cromwell a.s., Slovak Mail Services a.s., Prvá Doručovacia a.s. and ID Marketing Slovensko s.r.o.;
            
         
               3)
            
            
               Orders the Slovak Republic to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 55, 7.3.2009.