CELEX: 62011CA0289
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-289/11 P: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 May 2012 — Legris Industries SA v European Commission (Appeal — Competition — Cartels — Copper fittings and Copper alloy fittings Sector — Commission decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Fines — Parent companies and subsidiaries — Whether unlawful conduct attributable)

16.6.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 174/13
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 3 May 2012 — Legris Industries SA v European Commission
   (Case C-289/11 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - Competition - Cartels - Copper fittings and Copper alloy fittings Sector - Commission decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Fines - Parent companies and subsidiaries - Whether unlawful conduct attributable)
   2012/C 174/18
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Legris Industries SA (represented by: A. Wachsmann and S. Thibault-Liger, avocates)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: C. Giolito, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 24 March 2011 in Case T-376/06 Legris Industries v Commission, by which the Court dismissed the action for partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2006) 4180 final of 20 September 2006 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/F-1/38.121 — Fittings) — Copper Fittings and Copper Alloy Fittings Sector — Infringement of the right of access to an independent and impartial tribunal — Whether unlawful conduct attributable — Infringement of the principles of equal treatment, personal liability and the principle that the penalty must be specific to the offender — Distortion of evidence
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Legris Industries SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 252, 27.8.2011.