Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 10 March 2016 —

Buzzi Unicem v Commission

(Case C‑267/14 P) ( 1 )

‛Appeal — Competition — Market for ‘cement and related products’ — Administrative procedure — Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 — Article 18(1) and (3) — Decision requesting information — Statement of reasons — Clarification of the application’

1. 

Appeal — Grounds — Inadequate or contradictory grounds — Admissibility (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see para. 16)

2. 

Acts of the institutions — Statement of reasons — Obligation — Scope — Assessment of the duty to state reasons by reference to the circumstances of the case — No need to specify all the relevant factual and legal elements (Art. 296 TFEU) (see para. 17)

3. 

Competition — Administrative procedure — Request for information — Obligation to state reasons — Scope (Art. 296, second para., TFEU; Council Regulation No 1/2003, Art. 18(3)) (see paras 18, 20-22, 25, 38-40)

Operative part

The Court:

1. 

Sets aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 14 March 2014in Buzzi Unicem v Commission (T‑297/11, EU:T:2014:122);

2. 

Annuls Commission Decision C(2011) 2356 final of 30 March 2011 relating to a proceeding under Article 18(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 (Case COMP/39520 — Cement and related products);

3. 

Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Buzzi Unicem SpA with respect to both the proceedings at first instance in Case T‑297/11 and the appeal.


( 1 ) OJ C 282, 25.8.2014.