CELEX: C2006/224/87
Language: en
Date: 2006-09-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-417/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 July 2006 — Endesa v Commission (Competition — Concentration — Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 — Electricity market — Decision declaring that a concentration has no Community dimension — Calculation of turnover — Accounting criteria — Adjustments — Burden of proof — Rights of the defence)

16.9.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 224/40
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 14 July 2006 — Endesa v Commission
   (Case T-417/05) (1)
   
   (Competition - Concentration - Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 - Electricity market - Decision declaring that a concentration has no Community dimension - Calculation of turnover - Accounting criteria - Adjustments - Burden of proof - Rights of the defence)
   (2006/C 224/87)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Endesa SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J. Flynn QC, S. Baxter, Solicitor, and M. Odriozola Alén, M. Muñoz de Juan, M. Merola, J. García de Enterría Lorenzo-Velázquez, J. Varcárcel Martínez, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, É. Gippini Fournier, A. Whelan and M. Schneider, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: N. Díaz Abad, abogado del Estado) and Gas Natural SDG SA (Barcelona, Spain) (represented by: F. González Díaz, J. Jiménez de la Iglesia and A. Leis García, lawyers)
   Re:
   Application for annulment of the Commission Decision of 15 November 2005 declaring that a concentration has no Community dimension (Case COMP/M.3986 — Gas Natural/Endesa)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and the costs of the Commission and Gas Natural SDG SA, including those relating to the interlocutory proceedings;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 22 of 28.1.2006.