CELEX: 62003TJ0269
Language: en
Date: 2009-06-19
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 19 June 2009.#Socratec - Satellite Navigation Consulting, Research & Technology GmbH v Commission of the European Communities.#Competition - Concentrations - Market in road traffic telematic systems - Applicant declared insolvent in course of proceedings - No further legal interest in bringing proceedings - No need to adjudicate.#Case T-269/03.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 19 June 2009 – Socratec v Commission
      (Case T-269/03)
      Competition – Concentrations – Market in road traffic telematic systems – Applicant declared insolvent in course of proceedings – No further legal interest in bringing proceedings – No need to adjudicate
      Actions for annulment – Interest in bringing proceedings – Need for an actual and current interest – Action seeking annulment of a Commission decision declaring a concentration operation compatible with the common market – Action brought by a competitor of the parties to the operation put into liquidation in the course of the proceedings (Art.
         230 EC) (see paras 20, 36-41, 43, 47)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ANNULMENT of Commission Decision 2003/792/EC of 30 April 2003 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market
                  and with the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/M.2903 – DaimlerChrysler/Deutsche Telekom Joint Venture) (OJ 2003 L 300, p. 62).
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Declares that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the action;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Socratec – Satellite Navigation Consulting, Research & Technology GmbH to bear its own costs and to pay the costs of
                     the Commission, Daimler AG, Daimler Financial Services AG, Deutsche Telekom AG and Toll Collect GmbH;
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Qualcomm Wireless Business Solutions Europe BV to bear its own costs;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.