CELEX: 62012TA0267
Language: en
Date: 2016-02-29 00:00:00
Title: Case T-267/12: Judgment of the General Court of 29 February 2016 — Deutsche Bahn and Others v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — International air freight forwarding services — Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU — Price fixing — Surcharges and charging mechanisms affecting the final price — Evidence contained in an application for immunity — Protection of the confidentiality of communications between lawyers and clients — Code of Conduct rules on the duty of loyalty and prohibition on double representation — Fiduciary duties — Whether unlawful conduct can be attributed — Choice of companies — Fines — Proportionality — Gravity of the infringement — Mitigating circumstances — Equal treatment — Cooperation — Partial immunity from a fine — Unlimited jurisdiction — Settlement — 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines)

18.4.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 136/27
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 29 February 2016 — Deutsche Bahn and Others v Commission
   (Case T-267/12) (1)
   
   ((Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - International air freight forwarding services - Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU - Price fixing - Surcharges and charging mechanisms affecting the final price - Evidence contained in an application for immunity - Protection of the confidentiality of communications between lawyers and clients - Code of Conduct rules on the duty of loyalty and prohibition on double representation - Fiduciary duties - Whether unlawful conduct can be attributed - Choice of companies - Fines - Proportionality - Gravity of the infringement - Mitigating circumstances - Equal treatment - Cooperation - Partial immunity from a fine - Unlimited jurisdiction - Settlement - 2006 Guidelines on the method of setting fines))
   (2016/C 136/38)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Deutsche Bahn and Others (Berlin, Germany), Schenker AG (Essen, Germany), Schenker China Ltd (Shanghai, China), and Schenker International (HK) Ltd (Hong Kong, China) (represented by: F. Montag, B. Kacholdt, F. Hoseinian, lawyers, and by D. Colgan and T. Morgan, Solicitors)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: initially by A. Dawes and N. von Lingen, and subsequently by A. Dawes and G. Meessen, acting as Agents, and by B. Kennelly and H. Mussa, Barristers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2012) 1959 final of 28 March 2012 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 [TFEU] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/39462 — Freight forwarding), in so far as it concerns the applicants, and for variation of the fines imposed on them in that decision.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Deutsche Bahn AG, Schenker AG, Schenker China Ltd and Schenker International (HK) Ltd to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 243, 11.8.2012.