CELEX: C2006/048/49
Language: en
Date: 2006-02-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-210/01: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of  14 December 2005  — General Electric v Commission (Action for annulment — Competition — Commission decision declaring a concentration to be incompatible with the common market — Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 — Aeronautical markets — Acquisition of Honeywell by General Electric — Vertical integration — Bundling — Foreclosure — Horizontal overlaps — Rights of the defence)

25.2.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 48/26
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 December 2005 — General Electric v Commission
   (Case T-210/01) (1)
   
   (Action for annulment - Competition - Commission decision declaring a concentration to be incompatible with the common market - Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 - Aeronautical markets - Acquisition of Honeywell by General Electric - Vertical integration - Bundling - Foreclosure - Horizontal overlaps - Rights of the defence)
   (2006/C 48/49)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: General Electric Company (Fairfield, Connecticut (United States)) (represented by: N. Green QC, C. Booth QC, J. Simor, K. Bacon, Barristers, S. Baxter, Solicitor, L. Vogel and J. Vogel, lawyers, and, initially, by M. Van Kerckhove, lawyer, and subsequently by J. O'Leary, Solicitor)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: R. Lyal, P. Hellström and F. Siredey-Garnier, Agents)
   
      Intervener(s) in support of the defendant: Rolls-Royce plc (London (United Kingdom)) (represented by: A. Renshaw, Solicitor) and by Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa (United States)) (represented by: T. Soames, J. Davies and A. Ryan, Solicitors, and P.D. Camesasca, lawyer)
   Application for
   the annulment of Commission Decision 2004/134/EC of 3 July 2001 declaring a concentration to be incompatible with the common market and the EEA Agreement (Case No COMP/M.2220 — General Electric/Honeywell) (OJ 2004 L 48, p. 1),
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission and by the interveners.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 331, 24.11.2001.