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Document 62018CJ0596

    Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 28 November 2019.
    LS Cable & System Ltd v European Commission.
    Appeal — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — European market for underground and submarine power cables — Market allocation in connection with projects — Fines — Burden of proof — Distortion of the evidence — Public distancing from the cartel.
    Case C-596/18 P.

    Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

    ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2019:1025

     Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 28 November 2019 — LS Cable & System v Commission

    (Case C‑596/18 P) ( 1 )

    (Appeal — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — European market for underground and submarine power cables — Market allocation in connection with projects — Fines — Burden of proof — Distortion of the evidence — Public distancing from the cartel)

    1. 

    Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Agreements between undertakings — Concept — Participation in meetings having an anti-competitive object — Included — Condition — Undertaking concerned not distancing itself from the decisions adopted

    (Art. 101(1) TFEU; EEA Agreement, Art. 53)

    (see paras 21-23)

    2. 

    Appeal —Grounds — Incorrect assessment of the facts and evidence — Inadmissibility — Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence — Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted — Ground of appeal alleging distortion of the clear sense of the evidence — Need to establish a manifest error of assessment

    (Art. 256(1), second para., (d), TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)

    (see paras 24, 25, 38)

    3. 

    Appeal — Grounds — Plea submitted for the first time in the context of the appeal — Inadmissibility

    (Art. 256(1), second para., (d) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)

    (see paras 30-32)

    4. 

    Appeal — Grounds — Plea directed against a superfluous ground — Invalid plea in law — Rejection

    (Art. 256(1), second para., (d)., TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)

    (see para. 37)

    Operative part

    The Court:

    1. 

    Dismisses the appeal;

    2. 

    Orders LS Cable & System Ltd to pay the costs.


    ( 1 ) OJ C 427, 26.11.2018.

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