CELEX: 62018TA0344
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-344/18: Judgment of the General Court of 29 September 2021 — Rubycon and Rubycon Holdings v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market for aluminium electrolytic capacitors and tantalum electrolytic capacitors — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement — Price coordination throughout the EEA — Fines — Partial immunity from fines — Point 26 of the 2006 Leniency Notice — Reduction in the amount of the fine — Point 37 of the 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines — Ceiling of 10 % of turnover — Unlimited jurisdiction)

22.11.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 471/36
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 29 September 2021 — Rubycon and Rubycon Holdings v Commission
      (Case T-344/18) (1)
      
      (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market for aluminium electrolytic capacitors and tantalum electrolytic capacitors - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement - Price coordination throughout the EEA - Fines - Partial immunity from fines - Point 26 of the 2006 Leniency Notice - Reduction in the amount of the fine - Point 37 of the 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines - Ceiling of 10 % of turnover - Unlimited jurisdiction)
      (2021/C 471/49)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Rubycon Corp. (Ina, Japan), Rubycon Holdings Co. Ltd (Ina) (represented by: J. Rivas Andrés and A. Federle, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Ernst, L. Wildpanner and F. van Schaik, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for, first, annulment of Commission Decision C(2018) 1768 final of 21 March 2018 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 [TFEU] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT.40136 — Capacitors), in so far as it concerns the applicants, and, second, a reduction in the amount of the fines imposed on them.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Rubycon Corp. and Rubycon Holdings Co. Ltd to bear their own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 294, 20.8.2018.