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Judgment of the General Court (First Chamber) of 28 February 2024.
Scandlines Danmark ApS and Scandlines Deutschland GmbH v European Commission.
Case T-7/19.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2024:124

Judgment of the General Court (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 28 February 2024.
Kingdom of Denmark v European Commission.
Case T-364/20.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2024:125

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 18 January 2024.
Lietuvos notarų rūmai and Others v Lietuvos Respublikos konkurencijos taryba.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Lietuvos vyriausiasis administracinis teismas.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Competition – Article 101 TFEU – Concepts of ‘undertaking’ and ‘decisions of associations of undertakings’ – Decisions of the chamber of notaries of a Member State fixing the methods for calculating fees – Restriction ‘by object’ – Prohibition – Lack of justification – Fine – Imposition on the association of undertakings and its members – Perpetrator of the infringement.
Case C-128/21.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2024:49

Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 21 December 2023.
European Superleague Company, SL v Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA) and Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil de Madrid.
Request for a preliminary ruling – Competition – Internal market – Rules introduced by international sports associations – Professional football – Private law entities vested with regulatory, control and decision-making powers, and the power to impose sanctions – Rules on prior approval of competitions, on the participation of football clubs and players in those competitions, and also on the exploitation of commercial and media rights related to those competitions – Parallel pursuit of economic activities – Organisation and marketing of competitions – Exploitation of related commercial and media rights – Article 101(1) TFEU – Decision by an association of undertakings adversely affecting competition – Concepts of anticompetitive ‘object’ and ‘effect’ – Exemption under Article 101(3) TFEU – Conditions – Article 102 TFEU – Abuse of dominant position – Justification – Conditions – Article 56 TFEU – Restrictions on the freedom to provide services – Justification – Conditions – Burden of proof.
Case C-333/21.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2023:1011

Judgment of the General Court (Tenth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 20 December 2023.
Autorità di sistema portuale del Mar Ligure occidentale and Others v European Commission.
State aid – Taxation of port authorities in Italy – Exemption from corporate income tax – Decision declaring aid incompatible with the internal market – Existing aid – Concept of ‘undertaking’ – Concept of ‘economic activity’ – Advantage – Selectivity – Distortion of competition – Effect on trade between Member States – Equal treatment.
Case T-166/21.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2023:862

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 25 October 2023 (Extracts).
Bulgarian Energy Holding EAD and Others v European Commission.
Competition – Abuse of a dominant position – Internal market in natural gas – Decision finding an infringement of Article 102 TFEU – Regulated market – Definition of the relevant market – Romanian Transit Pipeline 1 – Holder of an exclusive right to use the Romanian Pipeline 1 – Refusal to grant access – Public supply obligation – State action defence – Transmission system operator – Storage system operator – Anticompetitive strategy – Exclusionary effects – Single and continuous infringement – Rights of the defence.
Case T-136/19.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2023:669

Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 20 April 2023.
ZA and Others v Repsol Comercial de Productos Petrolíferos SA.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Juzgado de lo Mercantil de Madrid.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Competition – Vertical restrictions of competition – Article 101(1) and (2) TFEU – Principle of effectiveness – Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 – Article 2 – Directive 2014/104/EU – Article 9(1) – Binding effect of the final decisions of the national competition authorities finding an infringement of the competition law rules – Temporal and material application – Actions for damages and for a declaration of nullity for infringements of the EU competition law provisions.
Case C-25/21.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2023:298

Judgment of the General Court (Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 30 March 2022.
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV v European Commission.
Competition – Agreements, decisions and concerted practices – Market for airfreight – Decision finding an infringement of Article 101 TFEU, Article 53 of the EEA Agreement and Article 8 of the Agreement between the European Community and Switzerland on Air Transport – Coordination of elements of the price of air freight services (fuel surcharge, security surcharge, payment of commission on surcharges) – Exchange of information – Territorial jurisdiction of the Commission – Single and continuous infringement – Equal treatment – Obligation to state reasons – Amount of the fine – Value of sales – Gravity of the infringement – Extenuating circumstances – Anticompetitive conduct encouraged by the national authorities – Proportionality – Unlimited jurisdiction.
Case T-325/17.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2022:176

Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 16 March 2023.
Towercast v Autorité de la concurrence and Ministère de l’Économie.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour d'appel de Paris.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Competition – Control of concentrations between undertakings – Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 – Article 21(1) – Exclusive application of that regulation to operations covered by the concept of ‘concentration’ – Scope – Concentration operation which has no Community dimension, is below the thresholds for mandatory ex ante control laid down in the law of a Member State and has not been referred to the European Commission – Control of such an operation by the competition authorities of that Member State in the light of Article 102 TFEU – Whether permissible.
Case C-449/21.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2023:207

Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 19 January 2023.
Unilever Italia Mkt. Operations Srl v Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato.
Request for a preliminary ruling from the Consiglio di Stato.
Reference for a preliminary ruling – Competition – Article 102 TFEU – Dominant position – Imputation, to the producer, of actions of its distributors – Existence of contractual links between the producer and the distributors – Concept of ‘economic unit’ – Scope – Abuse – Exclusivity clause – Need to demonstrate the effects on the market.
Case C-680/20.

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2023:33