CELEX: 62005TA0025
Language: en
Date: 2010-05-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-25/05: Judgment of the General Court of 19 May 2010 — KME Germany and Others v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Copper plumbing tube industry — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Fines — Actual impact on the market — Size of the relevant market — Duration of the infringement — Ability to pay — Cooperation)

3.7.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 179/31
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 19 May 2010 — KME Germany and Others v Commission
   (Case T-25/05) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Copper plumbing tube industry - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Fines - Actual impact on the market - Size of the relevant market - Duration of the infringement - Ability to pay - Cooperation)
   2010/C 179/52
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: KME Germany AG, formerly KM Europa Metal AG (Osnabrück, Germany); KME France SAS, formerly Tréfimétaux SA (Courbevoie, France); and KME Italy SpA, formerly Europa Metalli SpA (Florence, Italy) (represented by: M. Siragusa, A. Winckler, G.C. Rizza, T. Graf, M. Piergiovanni, lawyers, and R. Elderkin, Barrister)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: É. Gippini Fournier, S. Noë and C. Thomas, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application, first, for reduction of the fines imposed on the applicants under Article 2(g), (h) and (i) of Commission Decision C(2004) 2826 of 3 September 2004 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/E-1/38.069 — Copper plumbing tubes) and, second, by way of counterclaim by the Commission, for those fines to be increased.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the European Commission’s counterclaim;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders KME Germany AG, KME France SAS and KME Italy Spa to bear their own costs and to pay 50 % of the costs incurred by the Commission;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to bear 50 % of its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 82, 2.4.2005.