CELEX: 62006TA0079
Language: en
Date: 2011-11-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-79/06: Judgment of the General Court of 16 November 2011 — Sachsa Verpackung v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Plastic industrial bags sector — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price fixing — Allocation of sales quotas by geographic area — Allocation of customers — Exchange of individualised information — Proof of the infringement — Duration of the infringement — Fines — Gravity of the infringement — Proportionality — Attenuating circumstances — Follow-my-leader role)

7.1.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 6/12
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 November 2011 — Sachsa Verpackung v Commission
   (Case T-79/06) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Plastic industrial bags sector - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price fixing - Allocation of sales quotas by geographic area - Allocation of customers - Exchange of individualised information - Proof of the infringement - Duration of the infringement - Fines - Gravity of the infringement - Proportionality - Attenuating circumstances - Follow-my-leader role)
   2012/C 6/18
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Sachsa Verpackung GmbH (Wieda, Germany) (represented by: F. Puel and L. François-Martin, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: F. Castillo de la Torre and F. Arbault, then by F. Castillo de la Torre and N. von Lingen, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment in part of Commission Decision C(2005) 4634 final of 30 November 2005 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] (Case COMP/F/38.354 — Industrial bags), concerning a cartel on the market for plastic industrial bags, and, in the alternative, for amendment of that decision.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Gascogne Sack Deutschland GmbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 96, 22.4.2006.