CELEX: 62008TA0544
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-544/08: Judgment of the General Court of 12 December 2014  — Hansen & Rosenthal and H & R Wax Company Vertrieb v Commission (Competition — Agreements — Paraffin waxes market — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price fixing — Proof of the infringement — 2006 Guidelines for calculating the amount of fines — Rights of the defence — Calculation of the value of sales — Gravity of the infringement — No retroactivity — Equal treatment — Proportionality)

9.2.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 46/38
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 December 2014 — Hansen & Rosenthal and H & R Wax Company Vertrieb v Commission
   
   (Case T-544/08) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Agreements - Paraffin waxes market - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price fixing - Proof of the infringement - 2006 Guidelines for calculating the amount of fines - Rights of the defence - Calculation of the value of sales - Gravity of the infringement - No retroactivity - Equal treatment - Proportionality))
   (2015/C 046/44)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Hansen & Rosenthal KG (Hamburg, Germany); and H & R Wax Company Vertrieb GmbH (Hamburg) (represented by: J. Schulte, A. Lober and M. Dallmann, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Antoniadis and R. Sauer, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Primarily, application for annulment of Commission Decision C (2008) 5476 final of 1 October 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/39.181 — Candle Waxes), in that it concerns the applicants, and, in the alternative, an application for a reduction of the amount of the fine imposed on them.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders Hansen & Rosenthal KG and H & R Wax Company Vertrieb GmbH to bear their own costs and those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 55, 7.3.2009.