CELEX: 62015TA0772
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-772/15: Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2019 — Quanta Storage v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market for optical disk drives — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement — Collusive agreements relating to bidding events concerning optical disk drives for notebook and desktop computers — Rights of the defence — Obligation to state reasons — Principle of good administration — Fines — Single and continuous infringement — 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines)

9.9.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 305/35
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2019 — Quanta Storage v Commission
      (Case T-772/15) (1)
      
      (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market for optical disk drives - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement - Collusive agreements relating to bidding events concerning optical disk drives for notebook and desktop computers - Rights of the defence - Obligation to state reasons - Principle of good administration - Fines - Single and continuous infringement - 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines)
      (2019/C 305/41)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Quanta Storage, Inc. (Taoyuan, Taiwan) (represented by: O. Geiss, lawyer, B. Hartnett, Barrister, and W. Sparks, Solicitor)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Giolito and F. van Schaik, acting as Agents, and by C. Thomas, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU seeking, principally, annulment in part of Commission Decision C(2015) 7135 final of 21 October 2015 final relating to a proceeding under Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT.39639 — Optical disk drives), or, in the alternative, a reduction of the amount of the fine imposed on the applicant.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
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                     Dismisses the European Commission’s request that the amount of the fine of Quanta Storage, Inc. be increased;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders Quanta Storage to bear its own costs and to pay four fifths of the costs incurred by the Commission.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 98, 14.3.2016.