CELEX: 62006TA0190
Language: en
Date: 2011-07-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-190/06: Judgment of the General Court of 14 July 2011 — Total and Elf Aquitaine v Commission (Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Hydrogen peroxide and sodium perborate — Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC — Imputability of the infringement — Rights of the defence — Presumption of innocence — Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based — Equal treatment — Principle that penalties must fit the offence — Principle of nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege — Principle of sound administration — Legal certainty — Misuse of powers — Fines)

10.9.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 269/40
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 14 July 2011 — Total and Elf Aquitaine v Commission
   (Case T-190/06) (1)
   
   (Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Hydrogen peroxide and sodium perborate - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Imputability of the infringement - Rights of the defence - Presumption of innocence - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based - Equal treatment - Principle that penalties must fit the offence - Principle of nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege - Principle of sound administration - Legal certainty - Misuse of powers - Fines)
   2011/C 269/88
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Total SA (Courbevoie, France) and Elf Aquitaine SA (Courbevoie, France) (represented by: É. Morgan de Rivery, A. Noël-Baron and E. Lagathu, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by F. Arbault and O. Beynet, and subsequently by V. Bottka, P.J. Van Nuffel and B. Gencarelli, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2006) 1766 final of 3 May 2006 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/F/38.620 — Hydrogen peroxide and perborate) and, in the alternative, for amendment of Article 2(i) of that decision.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Total SA and Elf Aquitaine SA to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 212, 2.9.2006.