CELEX: 62014TA0669
Language: en
Date: 2016-05-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-669/14: Judgment of the General Court of 12 May 2016 — Trioplast Industrier v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market in industrial plastic bags — Action for annulment — Challengeable act — Admissibility — Action for damages — Default interest — Concept of a debt which is certain, of a fixed amount and due — Proportionality — Legal certainty — Principle that penalties must be specific to the individual and to the offence — Lack of legal basis — Article 266 TFEU — Causal link)

27.6.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 232/12
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 May 2016 — Trioplast Industrier v Commission
   (Case T-669/14) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market in industrial plastic bags - Action for annulment - Challengeable act - Admissibility - Action for damages - Default interest - Concept of a debt which is certain, of a fixed amount and due - Proportionality - Legal certainty - Principle that penalties must be specific to the individual and to the offence - Lack of legal basis - Article 266 TFEU - Causal link))
   (2016/C 232/15)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Trioplast Industrier AB (Smålandsstenar, Sweden) (represented by: T. Pettersson and A. Johansson, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: V. Bottka, L. Parpala and P. Rossi, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application, first, for annulment of the decision allegedly contained in the letter of the Commission of 3 July 2014 in case COMP/38.354 (Industrial bags — Trioplast Industrier AB) and, secondly, for damages under the second paragraph of Article 340 TFEU.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Trioplast Industrier AB to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 409, 17.11.2014.