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9.2.2015 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 46/40 |
Judgment of the General Court of 12 December 2014 — Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades and Others v Commission
(Case T-562/08) (1)
((Competition - Agreements - Paraffin waxes market - Decision finding an infringement of Article 81 EC - Price fixing and division of markets - Proof of the existence of the agreement - Duration of the infringement - 2006 Guidelines for calculating the amount of fines - Equal treatment - Presumption of innocence - Whether unlawful conduct attributable - Liability of a parent company for infringements of the competition rules committed by its subsidiaries - Decisive influence exercised by the parent company - Presumption in the case of a 100 % shareholding))
(2015/C 046/48)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicants: Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades, SA, formerly Repsol Lubricantes YPF y Especialidades, SA (Madrid, Spain); Repsol Petróleo, SA (Madrid); and Repsol, SA, formerly Repsol YPF, SA (Madrid) (represented by: J. M. Jiménez-Laiglesia Oñate, J. Jiménez-Laiglesia Oñate and S. Rivero Mena, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: F. Castillo de la Torre, F. Castilla Contreras and C. Urraca Caviedes, Agents)
Re:
Application for annulment of Commission Decision C (2008) 5476 final of 1 October 2008 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/39.181 — Candle Waxes) and application for a reduction of the amount of the fine imposed on the applicants.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
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Dismisses the action; |
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Orders Repsol Lubricantes y Especialidades, SA, Repsol Petróleo, SA, and Repsol, SA, to bear their own costs and those incurred by the European Commission. |