CELEX: 62009CN0360
Language: en
Date: 2009-09-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-360/09: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Bonn (Germany) lodged on 9 September 2009 — Pfleiderer AG v Bundeskartellamt

5.12.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 297/18
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Bonn (Germany) lodged on 9 September 2009 — Pfleiderer AG v Bundeskartellamt
   (Case C-360/09)
   2009/C 297/23
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Amtsgericht Bonn
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Pfleiderer AG
   
      Defendant: Bundeskartellamt
   
      Question referred
   
   Are the provisions of Community competition law — in particular Articles 11 and 12 of Regulation No 1/2003 (1) and the second paragraph of Article 10 EC, in conjunction with Article 3(1)(g) EC — to be interpreted as meaning that parties adversely affected by a cartel may not, for the purpose of bringing civil-law claims, be given access to leniency applications or to information and documents voluntarily provided in that connection by applicants for leniency which the national competition authority of a Member State has received, pursuant to a national leniency programme, within the framework of proceedings for the imposition of fines which are (also) intended to enforce Article 81 EC?
   
      (1)  OJ 2003 L 1, p. 1.