CELEX: 62007TA0053
Language: en
Date: 2011-07-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-53/07: Judgment of the General Court of 13 July 2011 — Trade-Stomil v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market in butadiene rubber and emulsion styrene butadiene rubber — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Participation in the cartel — Imputability of the offending conduct — Fines — Gravity and duration of the infringement — Attenuating circumstances)

10.9.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 269/43
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 13 July 2011 — Trade-Stomil v Commission
   (Case T-53/07) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market in butadiene rubber and emulsion styrene butadiene rubber - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Participation in the cartel - Imputability of the offending conduct - Fines - Gravity and duration of the infringement - Attenuating circumstances)
   2011/C 269/94
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Trade-Stomil sp. z o.o. (Łódź, Poland) (represented by: F. Carlin, Barrister, and E. Batchelor, Solicitor)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: X. Lewis and V. Bottka, and subsequently by V. Bottka and V. Di Bucci, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment, so far as Trade-Stomil sp. z o.o. is concerned, of Commission Decision C(2006) 5700 final of 29 November 2006 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/F/38.638 — Butadiene Rubber and Emulsion Styrene Butadiene Rubber) or, in the alternative, annulment or reduction of the fine imposed on Trade-Stomil.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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               Annuls Commission Decision C(2006) 5700 final of 29 November 2006 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/F/38.638 — Butadiene Rubber and Emulsion Styrene Butadiene Rubber) in so far as it concerns Trade-Stomil sp. z o.o.;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 95, 28.4.2007.