CELEX: 62015TA0530
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-530/15: Judgment of the General Court of 11 July 2019 — Huhtamäki and Huhtamäki Flexible Packaging Germany v Commission (Competition — Cartels — Retail food packaging market — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU and of Article 53 of the EEA Agreement — Evidence of involvement in the cartel — Single and continuous infringement — Attributability of unlawful conduct — 2006 Guidelines for calculating the amount of fines — Proportionality — Equal treatment)

2.9.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 295/14
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 11 July 2019 — Huhtamäki and Huhtamäki Flexible Packaging Germany v Commission
      (Case T-530/15) (1)
      
      (Competition - Cartels - Retail food packaging market - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU and of Article 53 of the EEA Agreement - Evidence of involvement in the cartel - Single and continuous infringement - Attributability of unlawful conduct - 2006 Guidelines for calculating the amount of fines - Proportionality - Equal treatment)
      (2019/C 295/18)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Huhtamäki Oyj (Espoo, Finland) and Huhtamäki Flexible Packaging Germany GmbH & Co. KG (Ronsberg, Germany) (represented by: H. Meyer-Lindemann, C. Graf York von Wartenburg and L. Stammwitz, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Biolan, F. Jimeno Fernández and L. Wildpanner, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for, principally, the partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2015) 4336 final of 24 June 2015 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 TFEU and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case AT.39563 — Retail food packaging) and, in the alternative, for the reduction of the fines imposed on the applicants.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders Huhtamäki Oyj and Huhtamaki Flexible Packaging Germany GmbH & Co KG to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 406, 7.12.2015.