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Den 6. august 1986 rejste ICI annullationssøgsmål til prøvelse af beslutningen for Domstolen, som ved kendelse af 15. november 1989 henviste sagen til Retten i medfør af Rådets afgørelse af 24. oktober 1988 om oprettelse af De Europæiske Fællesskabers Ret i Første Instans.
By application lodged at the Registry of the Court of Justice on 21 February 1992, Hercules Chemicals NV ('Hercules') brought an appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of 17 December 1991 ('the contested judgment').
ICI var blandt de nye producenter af polypropylen, der kom ind på markedet i 1977, og var en af de fire store.
Hercules was one of the new producers of polypropylene which appeared on the market in 1977.
Selskabets markedsandel i Vesteuropa lå på mellem 10,6% og 11,4%.
Its position on the West European market was that of a medium-sized producer with a market share of between 5 and 6.8 %.
Ved skrivelse indgivet til Rettens Justitskontor den 4. marts 1992 fremsatte sagsøgeren begæring til Retten om, at denne genåbner den mundtlige forhandling og anordner bevisoptagelse på grund af de erklæringer, Kommissionen fremsatte under retsmødet i de forenede sager BASF m.fl. mod Kommissionen (herefter »Rettens PVC-dom«) og under den pressekonference, som Kommissionen afholdt den 28. februar 1992, efter at der var blevet afsagt dom i sidstnævnte sag.
procedural defects in the adoption of the Polypropylene Decision by the Commission; secondly, to the omission by the latter to communicate the replies of the other producers to the statements of objections; thirdly, to the omission by the Court of First Instance to deliver all the polypropylene judgments at the same time; fourthly, to the contradiction between the findings of fact made by the Court of First Instance and its conclusion as to the participation by Hercules in a concerted practice involving the establishment of a sales target or quota system in 1981 and 1982; fifthly, the nonapplication by the Court of First Instance of a rule of law developed by the Court of Justice in its judgment in Case 374/87 Orkem ν Commission; and, sixthly, to the refusal to reduce the fine.
Efter procedurens afslutning vedtog Kommissionen polypropylenbeslutningen, ved hvilken den fastslog, at ICI havde overtrådt artikel 81, stk. 1, EF ved, sammen med andre virksomheder — hvad ICI angår — fra medio 1977 og mindst til november 1983 at have deltaget i en aftale og samordnet praksis, der havde sin oprindelse i 1977.
At the end of the procedure it had commenced, the Commission adopted the Polypropylene Decision, in which it found that Hercules had infringed Article 81(1) EC by participating, with other undertakings, and in the case of Hercules from about November 1977 until at least November 1983, in an agreement and concerted practice originating in mid-1977.
Retten afgjorde, at det var ufornødent at genåbne den mundtlige forhandling og at foranstalte den af ICI ønskede bevisoptagelse.
On 31 July 1986, Hercules lodged an action for annulment of that decision before the Court of Justice which, by order of 15 November 1989, referred the case to the Court of First Instance, pursuant to Council Decision 88/591/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 24 October 1988 establishing a Court of First Instance of the European Communities.
»navnlig, i modsætning til i PVC-sagerne, havde
In support of its appeal, Hercules relies on six grounds alleging breach of procedure and infringement of Community law relating, first, to
DSM blot at komme uden om en bindende søgsmålsfrist.
objections would not have led to annulment of the Polypropylene Decision.
sagsøgerne ikke fremført noget som helst bevis for, at princippet om, at der ikke må ændres i en udstedt retsakt, var blevet tilsidesat gennem en ændring af beslutningens ordlyd efter det kommissionsmøde, hvorunder den blev vedtaget.«
The refusal to grant access to the replies of the other producers to the statements of objections
Kendelsen af 30. september 1992, ved hvilken Domstolen gav DSM adgang til at intervenere til støtte for ICI's påstande, er ikke til hinder for, at der foretages en fornyet undersøgelse af, om interventionen kan admitteres.
Failure on the part of the Court of First Instance to deliver all the polypropylene judgments at the same time
Retten nedsatte størrelsen af den sagsøgeren pålagte bøde ifølge polypropylen-beslutningens artikel 3 og fastsatte den til 9 000 000 ECU, eller 5 803 173 GBP.
No provision requires the Community judicature to deliver on the same date its judgments on applications for annulment of the same measure.
I øvrigt frifandt Retten sagsøgte og pålagde ICI at betale sagens omkostninger.
The joinder of cases concerning the same subjectmatter is merely a discretionary power; having once been joined, cases may subsequently be disjoined.
Retten til at indtræde i retstvister indbragt for Domstolen ifølge artikel 37, stk. 2, i EF-statutten for Domstolen tilkommer alle personer, der godtgør at have en berettiget interesse i afgørelsen af tvisten.
It must be ascertained whether, in reaching the conclusion that a possible breach of the requirement to grant access to the replies of the other producers to the statements of objections would not have led to annulment of the Polypropylene Decision, the Court of First Instance committed an error of law.
I medfør af samme bestemmelses stk. 4 kan de påstande, der fremsættes i interventionsbegæringen, kun gå ud på at understøtte parternes påstande.
If that were the case, it would also be necessary to rule on the lawfulness of the Commission's refusal to grant Hercules access to those documents.
Domstolens PVC-dom vedrørte nulliteten af polypropylenbeslutningen og fjernede derfor ikke DSM's interesse i at søge fastslået, at nullitet forelå.
The general principles of Community law governing the right of access to the Commission's file are designed to ensure effective exercise of the rights of the defence.
Til støtte for appellen har ICI påberåbt sig anbringender om proceduremangler og tilsidesættelse af fællesskabsretten, hvilke står i forbindelse med Rettens afslag på at genåbne den mundtlige forhandling og at anordne bevisoptagelse med henblik på at afsløre mulige mangler ved den procedure, der førte til polypropylenbeslutningen, således at denne må anses for en nullitet eller bør annulleres.
Breach of those general principles of Community law in the procedure prior to the adoption of the decision can, in principle, cause the decision to be annulled if the rights of defence of the undertaking concerned have been infringed.
På begæring af Kommissionen og uden hensyn til ICI's protest blev sagens behandling udsat ved beslutning af 28. juli 1992 fra Domstolens præsident og indtil den 15. september 1994 med henblik på at undersøge, hvilke konsekvenser der skal drages af dommen af 15. juli 1994 i sagen Kommissionen mod BASF m.fl. (herefter »Domstolens PVC-dom«), som blev afsagt i en appelsag indledt til prøvelse af Rettens PVC-dom.
An appeal may rely only on grounds relating to the infringement of rules of law, to the exclusion of any appraisal of the facts. The appraisal by the Court of First Instance of the evidence put before it does not constitute (save where the clear sense of that evidence has been distorted) a point of law which is subject, as such, to review by the Court of Justice.
For så vidt som ICI fortsat påstår ophævelse af den appellerede dom og til støtte herfor gør gældende, at polypropylenbeslutningen blev udstedt på ulovlig vis, og at Retten burde have foretaget de nødvendige undersøgelser for at bringe disse mangler på det rene, er det imidlertid berettiget, at DSM støtter disse påstande i forbindelse med interventionen med den begrundelse, at disse mangler burde have foranlediget Retten til at fastslå, at nævnte beslutning var en nullitet.
In such a case, the infringement committed is not remedied by the mere fact that access was made possible at a later stage, in particular during the judicial proceedings relating to an action in which annulment of the contested decision is sought.
Ifølge fast retspraksis er artikel 37, stk. 4, i EF-statutten for Domstolen ikke til hinder for, at en intervenient påberåber sig andre argumenter end dem, der er fremsat af den part, der støttes, forudsat at intervenienten støtter den pågældende parts påstand.
Failure on the part of the Court of First Instance to apply the principle set out by the Court of Justice in Orkem ν Commission
støtte for appellen: og tilsidesættelse af
This plea was not raised before the Court of First Instance.
Anbringenderne til proceduremangler fællesskabsretten
The refusal to reduce the fine
ICI har gjort gældende, at for så vidt som Retten for det første fastslog, at polypropylenbeslutningen ikke var en nullitet og ikke skulle annulleres, og for det andet afslog begæringen om genåbning af den mundtlige forhandling og om, at der skulle træffes de nødvendige foranstaltninger til sagens tilrettelæggelse og bevisoptagelsen, tilsidesatte den fællesskabsretten
However, following joinder of the cases concerning the annulment of the Polypropylene Decision for the purposes of the oral procedure, Hercules had access to the replies of the other producers to the statement of objections and did not draw from those replies any exonerating evidence on which it could have relied during the oral procedure. It thereby failed to establish that those replies contained evidence of use for its defence and, consequently, that the fact that it was not able to apprise itself of their contents before the Polypropylene Decision was adopted had infringed its rights of defence.
Ifølge Kommissionen bør DSM's interventionsbegæring afvises.
The Court of First Instance did not commit an error of law in holding that a possible breach of the requirement to ensure access to the replies of the other producers to the statements of
DSM har forklaret, at man som intervenient har en interesse i, at dommen vedrørende ICI ophæves.
According to settled case-law, it is not for the Court of Justice, when deciding questions of law in the context of an appeal, to substitute, on grounds of fairness, its own appraisal for that of the Court of First Instance adjudicating, in the
Efter Kommissionens opfattelse kan ophævelsen ikke være til fordel for samtlige individuelle adressater for en beslutning, men alene for dem, der har rejst søgsmål med henblik herpå.
Under the case-law it is indeed the case that, where an infringement has been committed by several undertakings, the relative gravity of the participation of each undertaking must be examined.
Det er netop en af forskellene mellem annullation af en retsakt og retsaktens karakter af nullitet.
The Court of First Instance cannot therefore be held to have committed an error of law in that respect.
At bortse fra denne sondring betyder, at man frakender enhver bindende virkning af de frister, inden for hvilke annullationssøgsmål skal rejses.
The Court of First Instance, in giving its view on the determination of the amount of the fine, expressly stated that the Commission had properly assessed the duration of the period during which Hercules had infringed Article 81(1) EC.
DSM kan derfor ikke påberåbe sig en eventuel annullation, eftersom selskabet undlod at rejse sag ved Domstolen til prøvelse af Rettens dom af 17. december 1991 i sagen DSM mod Kommissionen, som angår selskabet.
In those circumstances, the Court of First Instance did not have to reduce the amount of the fine to take account of an allegedly shorter duration of the infringement.
Med sin intervention søger
'(1) Dismiss in its entirety the appeal brought by SA Hercules NV;
som afgørende for løsningen af den tvist, Retten skulle pådømme.
It reduced the amount of the fine imposed on Hüls in Article 3 of that Decision, setting it at ECU 2 337 500, that is to say DEM 5 013 680.38.
og gjorde sig skyldig i proceduremangler til skade for ICI's interesser i den betydning, der forudsættes i artikel 51, stk. 1, i EF-statutten for Domstolen.
The Commission adopted the Polypropylene Decision, in which it found that Hüls had infringed Article 81(1) EC by participating, with other undertakings, and in Hüls's case from some time between 1977 and 1979 until at least November 1983, in an agreement and concerted practice originating in mid-1977.
En appel kan kun støttes på, at Retten har overtrådt retsregler, idet enhver bedømmelse af faktisk karakter er udelukket.
By order of the Court of Justice of 30 September 1992, DSM NV ('DSM') was given leave to intervene in support of the orders sought by Hüls.
Rettens vurdering af beviser, der er fremført for den, udgør ikke — medmindre de er gengivet forkert — et retsspørgsmål og er dermed undergivet Domstolens prøvelsesret
Hüls was fined ECU 2 750 000, or DEM 5 898 447.50 (Article 3 of the Polypropylene Decision).
Retten var ikke pligtig at anordne genåbning af den mundtlige forhandling på grund af en angivelig pligt til ex officio at fremkomme med argumenter vedrørende lovligheden af fremgangsmåden ved vedtagelsen af polypropylenbeslutningen.
On 2 August 1986, Hüls lodged an action for annulment of that decision before the Court of Justice which, by order of 15 November 1989, referred the case to the Court of First Instance, pursuant to Council Decision 88/591/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 24 October 1988 establishing a Court of First Instance of the European Communities.
En sådan pligt til ex officio at rejse argumenter af ordre publickarakter kan potentielt kun eksistere ud fra de faktiske oplysninger, som er tilført sagens akter.
reopen the oral procedure. Accordingly, the Court of First Instance would only have to take a decision on such a request if it had upheld the request to reopen the oral procedure, so that there is no need to examine separately the complaints made by Hüls in this regard.
Retten har ikke gjort sig skyldig i nogen retlig fejl ved at afslå at genåbne den mundtlige forhandling og at foranstalte bevisoptagelse.
and held that the defects found by the latter were not such as to warrant treating the decision challenged in the PVC cases as nonexistent.
Domstolen må tage stilling til, om Retten har begået en retlig fejl ved at afslå at genåbne den mundtlige forhandling og foranstalte bevisoptagelse, således som appellanten har begæret.
Failure to find that the Polypropylene Decision was nonexistent or to annul it for breach of essential procedural requirements
I princippet gælder der i Fællesskabets institutioners retsakter en formodning om lovlighed, og at de derfor afføder retsvirkninger, også selv om de er behæftet med mangler, så længe de ikke er blevet annulleret eller trukket tilbage.
As regards the request for measures of inquiry, the case-law of the Court makes it clear that, if made after the oral procedure is closed, such a request can be admitted only if it relates to facts which may have a decisive influence on the outcome of the case and which the party concerned could not put forward before the close of the oral procedure.
Vedrørende begæringen om bevisoptagelse fremgår det af Domstolens praksis, at en parts begæring om bevisoptagelse efter afslutning af de mundtlige forhandlinger kun kan imødekommes, hvis den angår forhold, som kan få afgørende betydning, og som den pågældende ikke kunne have gjort gældende før afslutningen af den mundtlige forhandling.
The irregularities alleged by Hüls, which relate to the procedure for the adoption of the Polypropylene Decision, do not appear to be of such obvious gravity that the decision must be treated as legally nonexistent.
Som en undtagelse fra dette princip, bør retsakter, der er behæftet med en mangel, hvis grovhed er så åbenlys, at den ikke kan tolereres af Fællesskabets retsorden, imidlertid anses for ikke at have affødt nogen som helst, end ikke foreløbig, retsvirkning, dvs. at de juridisk bør anses for nulliteter.
In this case, the request to the Court of First Instance for the oral procedure to be reopened and measures of inquiry ordered was based on the PVC judgment of the Court of First Instance and on statements made by the Commission's Agents at the hearing in the PVC cases, or at a press conference which took place after that judgment was delivered.
Denne undtagelse skal sikre en ligevægt mellem to grundlæggende, men undertiden modstridende krav, som en retsorden skal opfylde, nemlig stabiliteten i retsforhold og overholdelsen af lovens bogstav.
First, indications of a general nature relating to an alleged practice of the Commission concerning the language rules or subsequent alterations to a decision that emerged from a judgment delivered in other cases or from statements made on the occasion of other proceedings could not, as such, be regarded as decisive for the purposes of the determination of the case then before the Court of First Instance.
Samme løsning trænger sig på hvad angår begæringen om genåbning af den mundtlige forhandling.
Consequently, the question whether the Court of First Instance was obliged to examine it overlaps with the question whether that Court should have acceded to the request, which is the subjectmatter of the plea alleging breach of procedure.
Retten er ikke pligtig at imødekomme en sådan begæring, medmindre den pågældende part påberåber sig faktiske omstændigheder af afgørende betydning, som parten ikke havde kunnet gøre gældende før afslutningen af den mundtlige forhandling.
Inasmuch as the appellant asks the Court of Justice to order measures of inquiry or offers evidence in order to establish the conditions under which the Commission adopted the Polypropylene Decision, suffice it to point out that such measures cannot be considered in an appeal, which is limited to points of law.
De konsekvenser, som er forbundet med konstateringen af, at en retsakt fra Fællesskabets institutioner er en nullitet, er så alvorlige, at det af retssikkerhedsmæssige grunde må kræves, at denne konstatering forbeholdes fuldstændig ekstreme tilfælde.
The Court of First Instance was not obliged to order that the oral procedure be reopened on the ground of an alleged duty to raise of its own motion issues concerning the regularity of the procedure by which the Polypropylene Decision was adopted.
Konkret var begæringen om genåbning af den mundtlige forhandling og om anordningen af bevisoptagelse, der blev fremsat for Retten, begrundet med henvisning til Rettens PVC-dom samt til erklæringer afgivet af Kommissionens befuldmægtigede i retsmødet i PVC-sagerne eller under en pressekonference, som fandt sted efter dommens afsigelse.
Infringements of Community law committed by the Court of First Instance in establishing and reviewing the facts submitted for its assessment, in assessing the individual responsibility of those participating in the infringement, and in setting the amount of the fine considered that, since the Commission had established to the requisite legal standard that Hüls had taken part in polypropylene producers' concerting together for the purpose of restricting competition, it did not have to adduce evidence that their concerting together had manifested itself in conduct on the market or that it had had effects restrictive of competition; on the contrary, it was for Hüls to prove that that did not have any influence whatsoever on its own conduct on the market.
De angivelige, af ICI påståede uregelmæssigheder ved udstedelsen af polypropylenbeslutningen ses ikke at være så klart grove, at beslutningen juridisk må anses for en nullitet
The concerted practice refers to a form of coordination between undertakings which, without having been taken to a stage where an agreement properly so-called has been concluded, knowingly substitutes for the risks of competition practical cooperation between them.
Hvad angår betingelserne for at fastslå en retsakt som en nullitet findes Retten herefter ikke at have tilsidesat fællesskabsretten.
Since the Commission had been able to establish that Hüls had taken part in the meetings at which price initiatives were decided on, organised and monitored, it was incumbent on Hüls to produce evidence to support its claims that it had not subscribed to those initiatives.
Bemærkninger i almindelige vendinger vedrørende en formodet praksis hos Kommissionen, som fremgik af en dom afsagt i andre sager eller af erklæringer fremsat under andre sager, ikke som sådanne kunne betragtes
It follows that the concept of a concerted practice implies, besides undertakings' concerting with each other, subsequent conduct on the market, and a relationship of cause and effect between the two.
Det hedder i domskonklusionen:
Hüls's complaints in that respect likewise cannot be upheld.
DSM NV betaler sine egne omkostninger.* *
Orders DSM NV to pay its own costs. '
Generaladvokat G. Cosmas fremsatte forslag til afgørelse i retsmødet (Sjette Afdeling) den 15. juli 1997.
Advocate General G. Cosmas delivered his Opinion at the sitting of the Sixth Chamber on 15 July 1997.
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(4) Order the appellant to pay the remaining costs.'
»Appel — Rettens procesreglement — genåbning af den mundtlige forhandling — Kommissionens forretningsorden — proceduren for vedtagelse af en beslutning i kommissærkollegiet* (Sjette Afdeling) medio 1977 og mindst til november 1983 at have deltaget i en aftale og samordnet praksis, der havde sin oprindelse i 1977.
(Appeal — Rules of Procedure of the Court of First Instance — Reopening of the oral procedure — Commission's Rules of Procedure — Procedure for the adoption of a decision by the College of Members of the Commission) (Sixth Chamber)
Ved appelskrift indleveret til Domstolens Justitskontor den 18. maj 1992 har Hoechst AG appelleret den dom, som den 10. marts 1992 blev afsagt af Retten i Første Instans i sagen Hoechst mod Kommissionen (herefter »den appellerede dom«).
By application lodged at the Registry of the Court of Justice on 15 May 1992, Imperial Chemical Industries pic ('ICI') brought an appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of 10 March 1992 in Case T-13/89 ICI ν Commission ('the contested judgment').
Hoechst var blandt de nye producenter af polypropylen, der kom ind på markedet i 1977, og var en af de fire store.
ICI was one of the big four producers of polypropylene which supplied the market in 1977, with a market share on the West European market of between 10.6 and 11.4%.
Selskabets markedsandel i Vesteuropa lå på mellem 10,5% og 12,6%.
For the rest, it dismissed the application and ordered ICI to pay the costs.
Den 2. august 1986 rejste Hoechst annullationssøgsmål til prøvelse af beslutningen for Domstolen, som ved kendelse af 15. november 1989 henviste sagen til Retten i medfør af Rådets afgørelse 88/591/EKSF, EØF, Euratom af 24. oktober 1988 om oprettelse af De Europæiske Fællesskabers Ret i Første Instans.
On 6 August 1986, ICI lodged an action for annulment of that decision before the Court of Justice which, by order of 15 November 1989, referred the case to the Court of First Instance, pursuant to Council Decision 88/591/ECSC, EEC, Euratom of 24 October 1988 establishing a Court of First Instance of the European Communities.
del af sine anbringender for at tage hensyn til Domstolens PVC-dom vedrørende spørgsmålet om polypropylen-beslutningens nullitet.
Failure to observe that distinction would mean that time-limits for bringing an action would cease to be mandatory in actions for annulment.
Ved særskilt dokument indleveret til Rettens Justitskontor den 2. marts 1992 begærede Hoechst datoen for dommens afsigelse udsat, genåbning af den mundtlige forhandling og foranstaltninger til tilrettelæggelse af sagen samt bevisoptagelse i henhold til procesreglementets artikel 62, 64, 65 og 66, på grund af de af Kommissionen fremsatte erklæringer i retsmødet for Retten i de forenede sager BASF m.fl. mod Kommissionen (dom af 27.2.1992, herefter »Rettens PVC-dom«).
An appeal may rely only on grounds relating to the infringement of rules of law, to the exclusion of any appraisal of the facts. The appraisal by the Court of First Instance of the evidence put before it does not constitute, save where the clear sense of that evidence has been distorted, a point of law which is subject, as such, to review by the Court of Justice.