CELEX: 62006TA0025
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-25/06: Judgment of the General Court of 9 September 2011 — Alliance One International v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Italian market for the purchase and first processing of raw tobacco — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Price-fixing and market sharing — Attributability of the unlawful conduct — Fines)

22.10.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 311/32
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 9 September 2011 — Alliance One International v Commission
   (Case T-25/06) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Italian market for the purchase and first processing of raw tobacco - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price-fixing and market sharing - Attributability of the unlawful conduct - Fines)
   2011/C 311/54
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Alliance One International, Inc. (Danville, Virginia, United States) (represented by: C. Osti and A. Prastaro, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented: initially by É. Gippini Fournier and F. Amato, and subsequently by E. Gippini Fournier and N. Khan, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   APPLICATION for partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2005) 4012 final of 20 October 2005 relating to a proceeding under Article 81(1) [EC] (Case COMP/C.38.281/B.2 — Raw tobacco — Italy) and, in the alternative, application for a reduction in the fine imposed on Alliance One International.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Alliance One International, Inc. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 60, 11.3.2006.