CELEX: 62008TA0562
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-562/08: Judgment of the General Court of 12 December 2014  — Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades and Others v Commission (Competition — Agreements — Paraffin waxes market — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price fixing and division of markets — Proof of the existence of the agreement — Duration of the infringement — 2006 Guidelines for calculating the amount of fines — Equal treatment — Presumption of innocence — Whether unlawful conduct attributable — Liability of a parent company for infringements of the competition rules committed by its subsidiaries — Decisive influence exercised by the parent company — Presumption in the case of a 100 % shareholding)

9.2.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 46/40
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 December 2014 — Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades and Others v Commission
   
   (Case T-562/08) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Agreements - Paraffin waxes market - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price fixing and division of markets - Proof of the existence of the agreement - Duration of the infringement - 2006 Guidelines for calculating the amount of fines - Equal treatment - Presumption of innocence - Whether unlawful conduct attributable - Liability of a parent company for infringements of the competition rules committed by its subsidiaries - Decisive influence exercised by the parent company - Presumption in the case of a 100 % shareholding))
   (2015/C 046/48)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades, SA, formerly Repsol Lubricantes YPF y Especialidades, SA (Madrid, Spain); Repsol Petróleo, SA (Madrid); and Repsol, SA, formerly Repsol YPF, SA (Madrid) (represented by: J. M. Jiménez-Laiglesia Oñate, J. Jiménez-Laiglesia Oñate and S. Rivero Mena, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, F. Castilla Contreras and C. Urraca Caviedes, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C (2008) 5476 final of 1 October 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/39.181 — Candle Waxes) and application for a reduction of the amount of the fine imposed on the applicants.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades, SA, Repsol Petróleo, SA, and Repsol, SA, to bear their own costs and those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 44, 21.2.2009.