13.5.2019   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 164/50


Order of the General Court of 15 March 2019 — Silgan Closures and Silgan Holdings v Commission

(Case T-410/18) (1)

(Action for annulment - Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Market in metal packaging - Decision to open an investigation - Act not open to challenge - Inadmissibility)

(2019/C 164/53)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicants: Silgan Closures GmbH (Munich, Germany), Silgan Holdings, Inc. (Stamford, Connecticut, United States) (represented by: H. Wollmann, D. Seeliger, R. Grafunder and V. Weiss, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T. Christoforou, B. Ernst, G. Meessen, C. Vollrath and L. Wildpanner, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2018) 2466 final of 19 April 2018, by which the Commission initiated a proceeding under Article 101 TFEU in case AT.40522 — Pandora.

Operative part of the order

1.

The action is dismissed.

2.

There is no need to adjudicate on the applications to intervene submitted by the Federal Republic of Germany and the Council of the European Union.

3.

Silgan Closures GmbH and Silgan Holdings, Inc., shall bear their own costs and pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.

4.

The Federal Republic of Germany and the Council shall bear their own costs relating to the applications to intervene.


(1)  OJ C 285, 13.8.2018.