CELEX: 62005TA0033
Language: en
Date: 2011-02-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-33/05: Judgment of the General Court of 3 February 2011 — Cetarsa v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Spanish market for the purchase and first processing of raw tobacco — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price fixing and market-sharing — Fines — Gravity and duration of the infringement — Equal treatment — Principle of proportionality — Maximum limit of 10 % of turnover — Cooperation)

19.3.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 89/14
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 3 February 2011 — Cetarsa v Commission
   (Case T-33/05) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Spanish market for the purchase and first processing of raw tobacco - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price fixing and market-sharing - Fines - Gravity and duration of the infringement - Equal treatment - Principle of proportionality - Maximum limit of 10 % of turnover - Cooperation)
   2011/C 89/31
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Compañía española de tabaco en rama, SA (Cetarsa) (Navalmoral de la Mata, Spain) (represented by: M. Araujo Boyd, J. Buendía Sierra and A. Givaja Sanz, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre and É. Gippini Fournier, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Firstly, an application for the annulment of Commission Decision C(2004) 4030 final of 20 October 2004 relating to a proceeding under Article 81(1) EC (Case COMP/C.38.238/B.2 — Raw Tobacco — Spain), secondly and in the alternative, an application for the reduction of the amount of the fine imposed on the applicant in that decision and, thirdly, a counterclaim by the Commission seeking to have that amount increased.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Sets the amount of the fine imposed on Compañía española de tabaco en rama, SA (Cetarsa) in Article 3 of Commission Decision C(2004) 4030 final of 20 October 2004 relating to a proceeding under Article 81(1) EC (Case COMP/C.38.238/B.2 — Raw Tobacco — Spain) at EUR 3 147 000;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as to the remainder;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Dismisses the European Commission’s counterclaim;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders Cetarsa to bear eight-tenths of its own costs and eight-tenths of the costs incurred by the Commission, and orders the Commission to bear two-tenths of its own costs and two-tenths of the costs incurred by Cetarsa.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 82, 2.4.2005.