Case C-376/20 PC-376/20 P
Court of Justice
Status:
In progressCase on which the appeal is based:
62016TJ0399
DECISION
- Title
- Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 13 July 2023. European Commission v CK Telecoms UK Investments Ltd. Appeal – Competition
– Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 – Control of concentrations of undertakings – Mobile telecommunications services – Decision
declaring a concentration incompatible with the internal market – Oligopolistic market – Significant impediment to effective
competition – Non-coordinated effects – Standard of proof – European Commission’s margin of discretion with regard to economic
matters – Limits of judicial review – Guidelines on horizontal mergers – Factors relevant to demonstrating a significant impediment
to effective competition – Concepts of ‘important competitive force’ and ‘close competitors’ – Closeness of competition between
the parties to the concentration – Quantitative analysis of the effects of the proposed concentration on prices – Efficiencies
– Distortion – Complaint raised by the General Court of the European Union of its own motion – Annulment. Case C-376/20 P.
- ECLI identifier
- ECLI:EU:C:2023:561
- Applicant
- European Commission, EU institutions and bodies
- Defendant
- Individual
- Judge-Rapporteur
- Arabadjiev
- Type of procedure
- Application to intervene,Appeal - successful,Appeal - unfounded,Action for annulment
- Complementary documents:
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13/07/2023
PROCEEDINGS
- Title
- Opinion of Advocate General Kokott delivered on 20 October 2022. European Commission v CK Telecoms UK Investments Ltd. Appeal
– Competition – Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 – Control of concentrations of undertakings – Mobile telecommunications services
– Decision declaring a concentration incompatible with the internal market – Oligopolistic market – Significant impediment
to effective competition – Non-coordinated effects – Standard of proof – European Commission’s margin of discretion with regard
to economic matters – Limits of judicial review – Guidelines on horizontal mergers – Factors relevant to demonstrating a significant
impediment to effective competition – Concepts of ‘important competitive force’ and ‘close competitors’ – Closeness of competition
between the parties to the concentration – Quantitative analysis of the effects of the proposed concentration on prices –
Efficiencies – Distortion – Complaint raised by the General Court of the European Union of its own motion – Annulment. Case
C-376/20 P.
- ECLI identifier
- ECLI:EU:C:2022:817
- Advocate General
- Kokott
20/10/2022