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Case T-79/12: Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2013 — Cisco Systems and Messagenet v Commission (Competition — Concentrations — European markets for internet communications services — Decision declaring the concentration compatible with the internal market — Manifest errors of assessment — Obligation to state reasons)
Case T-79/12: Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2013 — Cisco Systems and Messagenet v Commission (Competition — Concentrations — European markets for internet communications services — Decision declaring the concentration compatible with the internal market — Manifest errors of assessment — Obligation to state reasons)
Case T-79/12: Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2013 — Cisco Systems and Messagenet v Commission (Competition — Concentrations — European markets for internet communications services — Decision declaring the concentration compatible with the internal market — Manifest errors of assessment — Obligation to state reasons)
OJ C 31, 1.2.2014, p. 9–9
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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1.2.2014 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
C 31/9 |
Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2013 — Cisco Systems and Messagenet v Commission
(Case T-79/12) (1)
(Competition - Concentrations - European markets for internet communications services - Decision declaring the concentration compatible with the internal market - Manifest errors of assessment - Obligation to state reasons)
2014/C 31/15
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicants: Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, California, United States) and Messagenet SpA (Milan, Italy) (represented by: L. Ortiz Blanco, J. Buendía Sierra, A. de Pablo and K. Jörgens, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: N. Khan, S. Noë and C. Hödlmayr, Agents)
Intervener in support of the defendant: Microsoft Corp. (Seattle, Washington, United States) (represented by: G. Berrisch, lawyer)
Re:
Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2011) 7279 final of 7 October 2011 declaring compatible with the internal market the merger transaction involving the acquisition of control of Skype Global Sàrl by Microsoft Corp. (Case COMP/M.6281 — Microsoft/Skype).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
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Dismisses the action; |
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Orders Cisco Systems Inc. and Messagenet SpA to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and Microsoft Corp. |