CELEX: 62011CB0494
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-15 00:00:00
Title: Case C-494/11 P: Order of the Court of 15 June 2012 — Otis Luxembourg Sàrl, formerly General Technic-Otis Sàrl, Otis SA, Otis GmbH & Co. OHG, Otis BV, Otis Elevator Company v European Commission (Appeals — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market for the installation and maintenance of elevators and escalators — Fines — Parent company and subsidiaries — Imputability of the unlawful conduct)

24.11.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 366/21
            
         Order of the Court of 15 June 2012 — Otis Luxembourg Sàrl, formerly General Technic-Otis Sàrl, Otis SA, Otis GmbH & Co. OHG, Otis BV, Otis Elevator Company v European Commission
   (Case C-494/11 P) (1)
   
   (Appeals - Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market for the installation and maintenance of elevators and escalators - Fines - Parent company and subsidiaries - Imputability of the unlawful conduct)
   2012/C 366/36
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellants: Otis Luxembourg Sàrl, formerly General Technic-Otis Sàrl, Otis SA, Otis GmbH & Co. OHG, Otis BV, Otis Elevator (represented by: A. Winckler and D. Gerard, lawyers, and by J. Temple Lang and C. Cook, Solicitors)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: A. Bouquet, R. Sauer and J. Bourke, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 13 July 2011 in Joined Cases T-141/07, T-142/07, T-145/07 and T-146/07 General Technic-Otis and Others v Commission, by which the General Court dismissed an action for the partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2007) 512 final of 21 February 2007 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty (Case COMP/E 1/38.823 — Elevators and Escalators), concerning a cartel in the market for the installation and maintenance of elevators and escalators in Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, concerning bid-rigging, market-sharing, price-fixing, the awarding of projects and contracts related thereto and exchange of information, and, in the alternative, for the annulment or reduction of the fine imposed on the applicant — Liability of a parent company for infringements of the competition rules committed by its subsidiaries
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               The appeal is dismissed.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Otis Luxembourg Sàrl, Otis SA, Otis GmbH & Co. OHG, Otis BV and Otis Elevator Company shall pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 347, 26.11.2011.