CELEX: 62011CA0668
Language: en
Date: 2013-09-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-668/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 26 September 2013 — Alliance One International, Inc. v European Commission (Appeal — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Spanish market for the purchase and first processing of raw tobacco — Price-fixing and market-sharing — Infringement of Article 81 EC — Whether unlawful conduct of a subsidiary attributable to its parent company — Deterrent effect — Equal treatment — Cooperation — Obligation to state reasons — Mitigating circumstances)

23.11.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 344/18
            
         Judgment of the Court (Ninth Chamber) of 26 September 2013 — Alliance One International, Inc. v European Commission
   (Case C-668/11 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Spanish market for the purchase and first processing of raw tobacco - Price-fixing and market-sharing - Infringement of Article 81 EC - Whether unlawful conduct of a subsidiary attributable to its parent company - Deterrent effect - Equal treatment - Cooperation - Obligation to state reasons - Mitigating circumstances)
   2013/C 344/29
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Alliance One International, Inc. (represented by: M. Odriozola and A. Vide, Abogados)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, and J. Bourke, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 12 October 2011 in Case T-38/05 Agroexpansion v Commission, by which the General Court rejected, in part, an application for the partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2004) 4030 final of 20 October 2004 relating to a proceeding under Article 81(1) [EC] (Case COMP/C.38.238/B2 — Raw tobacco — Spain)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Alliance One International, Inc. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 89, 24.3.2012.