CELEX: 62014TA0450
Language: en
Date: 2018-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-450/14: Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2018 — Sumitomo Electric Industries and J-Power Systems v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — European market for power cables — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU — Single and continuous infringement — Proof of the infringement — Duration of participation — Public distancing — Calculation of the fine — Gravity of the infringement — Unlimited jurisdiction)

17.9.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 328/38
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2018 — Sumitomo Electric Industries and J-Power Systems v Commission
      (Case T-450/14) (1)
      
      ((Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - European market for power cables - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU - Single and continuous infringement - Proof of the infringement - Duration of participation - Public distancing - Calculation of the fine - Gravity of the infringement - Unlimited jurisdiction))
      (2018/C 328/52)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd (Osaka, Japan) and J-Power Systems Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) (represented by M. Hansen, L. Crocco, J. Ruiz Calzado and S. Völcker, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by C. Giolito, H. van Vliet and J. Norris-Usher, acting as Agents, and by M. Gray, Barrister)
      
         Re:
      
      Action pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2014) 2139 final of 2 April 2014 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 [TFEU] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT.39610 — Power cables) in so far as it concerns the applicants and, in the alternative, an application for a reduction in the amount of the fine imposed on the applicants in that decision.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd and J-Power Systems Corp. to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 303, 8.9.2014.