CELEX: 62007TA0491
Language: en
Date: 2012-11-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-491/07: Judgment of the General Court of 29 November 2012 — CB v Commission (Competition — Decision of an association of undertakings — Market for issuing payment cards in France — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Tariff measures applicable to ‘new entrants’ — Membership fees and so-called ‘regulation of customer function’ and ‘sleeper member fee’ mechanisms — Relevant market — Object of the measures at issue — Restriction of competition by object — Article 81(3) EC — Manifest errors of assessment — Principle of sound administration — Proportionality — Legal certainty)

26.1.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 26/39
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 29 November 2012 — CB v Commission
   (Case T-491/07) (1)
   
   (Competition - Decision of an association of undertakings - Market for issuing payment cards in France - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Tariff measures applicable to ‘new entrants’ - Membership fees and so-called ‘regulation of customer function’ and ‘sleeper member fee’ mechanisms - Relevant market - Object of the measures at issue - Restriction of competition by object - Article 81(3) EC - Manifest errors of assessment - Principle of sound administration - Proportionality - Legal certainty)
   2013/C 26/73
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Groupement des cartes bancaires ‘CB’ (Paris, France) (represented by: A. Georges, J. Ruiz Calzado, É. Barbier de la Serre, then J. Ruiz Calzado and F. Pradelles, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented: initially by F. Arbault, O. Beynet and V. Bottka, then O. Beynet, V. Bottka and B. Mongin, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the applicant: BNP Paribas (Paris, France) (represented by: O. de Juvigny and D. Berg, lawyers); BPCE, formerly Caisse nationale des caisses d’épargne et de prévoyance (CNCEP) (Paris) (represented by: B. Bär-Bouyssière and A. de Beaugrenier, lawyers); and Société Générale (Paris) (represented by: A. Barav and D. Reymond, lawyers).
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2007) 5060 final of 17 October 2007 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC (Case COMP/D1/38.606 — Groupement des Cartes Bancaires ‘CB’).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Groupement des cartes bancaires ‘CB’ to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders BPCE, BNP Paribas and Société Générale to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 64, 8.3.2008.