CELEX: 62010TA0564
Language: en
Date: 2014-06-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-564/10: Judgment of the General Court of 26 June 2014  — Quimitécnica.com and de Mello v European Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — European market in animal feed phosphates — Fines — Payment in instalments — Commission decision requiring a bank guarantee to be set up — Obligation to state reasons — Proportionality)

11.8.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 261/22
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 26 June 2014 — Quimitécnica.com and de Mello v European Commission
   (Case T-564/10) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - European market in animal feed phosphates - Fines - Payment in instalments - Commission decision requiring a bank guarantee to be set up - Obligation to state reasons - Proportionality))
   2014/C 261/43
   Language of the case: Portuguese
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Quimitécnica.com — Comércio e Indústria Química, SA (Lordelo, Portugal); and José de Mello — Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais, SA (Lisbon, Portugal) (represented by: J. Calheiros and A. de Albuquerque, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Mongin, V. Bottka and F. Ronkes Agerbeek, Agents, assisted by M. Marques Mendes, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for the annulment in part of the decision allegedly set out in the letter from the Commission’s accounting officer of 8 October 2010 concerning payment of the fine imposed on the applicants under Commission Decision C (2010) 5004 final of 20 July 2010 relating to a proceeding pursuant to Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/38.886 — Animal feed phosphates), in so far as that letter requires the applicants to provide a bank guarantee from a bank that has received a long-term ‘AA’ credit rating in order for the application to pay in instalments to be granted.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Quimitécnica.com — Comércio e Indústria Química, SA and José de Mello — Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais, SA to bear their own costs and to pay those of the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 55, 19.2.2011.