Cyril Sarrazin

Appeal brought by Versalis SpA, formerly Polimeri Europa SpA, against thejudgment of the General Court of 13 July 2011 in Case T-371/01 Polimeri Europa v Commission (Case T-59/079), the Court of Justice of the European Union dismisses the six pleas in law raised in support of that appeal. The (...)

Appeal brought by Eni SpA against the judgmentof the Court of First Instance of 13 July 2011 in Case T-371/01 Eni v Commission (Case T-39/07), the Court of Justice of the European Union rejects the two pleas in law raised in its support. The Court also had before it a cross-appeal brought by (...)

CJEU, 28 February 2013, Ordem dos Técnicos Oficiais de Contas v Autorisade de Concorrência, C-1/12 Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa (Lisbon District Court) (Portugal) was made to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling on the (...)

CJEU, 7 February 2013, Protimonopolný úrad Slovenskej republiky v Slovenská sporitel ’ňa, Case C-68/12 Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Union by the Najvyšší súd Slovenskej republiky (Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic) for a preliminary ruling on the substance of the (...)

CJEU, 22 January 2013, Commission v Tomkins plc, Case C-286/11 P Appeal brought by the Commission against the judgment of the General Court of 24 March 2011 inCase T-382/06 Tomkins v Commission [2011] ECR II-1157, p. 153.), the Court, sitting as a Grand Chamber, dismisses all five pleas in law (...)

CJEU, 6 December 2012, C-441/11 P, Commission v Verhuizingen Coppens NV Appeal brought on 16 June 2011 by the European Commission (hereinafter ’the Commission’) against thejudgment of the General Court of 16 June 2011 in Case T-379/01 Verhuizingen Coppens v Commission (Case T-210/08, not yet (...)

Trib. EU, 27 September 2012, T-82/08, Guardian Industries Corp. and others v. Commission Action brought by Guardian Industries Corp and Guardian Europe Sarl against Commission Decision C(2007) 5791 final of 28 November 2007 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 [EC] and Article 53 of the (...)

CJEU (gde ch.), 19 July 2012, Joined Cases C-628/10 P and C 14/11 P, Alliance One International v Commission Referral of two appeals brought by Alliance One International and Standard Commercial Tobacco and of a cross-appeal brought by the Commission against the judgment of the General Court (...)

CJEU, 19 July 2012, Kaimer GmbH and Others v Commission, Case C-264/11 P Appeal against the judgmentof the General Court of 24 March 2011, Kaimer and Others v Commission (Case T-379/06), the Court dismissed all the pleas in law raised and, therefore, the action. Although those pleas in law (...)

CJEU, 12 July 2012, C-181/11 P, Cetarsa / Commission Appeal brought by Cetarsa (hereinafter ’the appellant’) and cross-appeal brought by the Commission against thejudgment of the General Court of 3 February 2011 in Case T-212/08 Cetarsa v Commission (Case T-33/05), the Court rejects them both on (...)

CJEU, 14 June 2012, Auto 24, box C-158/11 Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Union by a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation (France) from the Cour de cassation (Court of Cassation), which was asked to rule, in substance, on whether the (...)

Trib. EU, 5 June 2012, Imperial Chemical Industries v Commission, Case T-214/06 An action has been brought before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities for annulment of Commission Decision C(2006) 2098 final of 31 May 2006 (Case COMP/F/38.645 - Methacrylates) and, in the (...)

CJEU, 3 May 2012, Comap v Commission, Case C-290/11 P CJEU, 3 May 2012, Legris Industries v Commission, Case C-289/11 P Two separate appeals against the judgments of the Court of First Instance of 24 March 2011 in Cases T 376/06 and T 377/06 (review Concurrences, 2/2011, p. 98).), the Court (...)

CJEU, 8 December 2011, KME Germany and Others v Commission, Case C-272/09 P, "Industrial copper tubes and copper plumbing tubes". CJEU, 8 December 2011, KME Germany and Others v Commission, Case C-389/10 P, "Industrial copper tubes and copper plumbing tubes". On 8 December last, the Court of (...)

CJEU, 8 December 2011, Chalkor v Commission, Case C-386/10 P, "Industrial copper tubes and copper plumbing tubes". On 8 December last, the Court of Justice delivered a judgment in Case C-386/10 P seeking the annulment of the judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-21/05, by which the (...)

Trib. EU, 12 October 2011, Agroexpansión v Commission, Case T-38/05, "Raw Tobacco - Spain". Trib. EU, 12 October 2011, Alliance One International v. Commission, Case T-41/05, "Raw Tobacco - Spain". On 12 October 2011, the General Court delivered two judgments concerning the actions brought by (...)

Trib. EU, 30 November 2011, Quinn Barlo and Others v. Commission, Case T-208/06, "Methacrylates". Primarily, the Court of First Instance has brought an action for annulment of Commission Decision C(2006) 2098 final of 31 May 2006 (Case COMP/F/38.645 - Methacrylates) and, in the alternative, (...)

GCEU, 2 February 2012, EI du Pont de Nemours a.o. v. Commission, Case T-76/08, "Market for chloroprene rubber". GCEU, 2 February 2012, Dow Chemical v. Commission, Case T-77/08, "Market for chloroprene rubber". On 2 February 2008, the Court of First Instance of the European Union delivered two (...)

In her Opinion delivered on 12 January 2012 in Joined Cases C 628/10 P and C 14/11 P concerning the cartel on the Spanish raw tobacco market, Advocate General Juliane Kokott proposed that the Court should dismiss in their entirety the appeals brought both by the appellants at first instance, (...)

GCEU, 5 October 2011, Transcatab v. Commission, case T-39/06, "Raw Tobacco - Italy". On 5 October 2011, the Court of First Instance dismissed in its entirety, first, the action brought by Transcatab seeking partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2005) 4012 final of 20 October 2005 (Case (...)

GCEU, 5 October 2011, Romana Tabacchi v. Commission, case T-11/06, "Raw Tobacco - Italy". On 5 October 2011, the Court of First Instance delivered a judgment in which it, on the one hand, accepted in part the arguments relating to the findings as to the participation of Romana Tabacchi in the (...)

GCEU, 15 September 2011, Lucite International and Lucite International UK v. Commission, Case T-216/06, "Methacrylates". In a judgment delivered on 15 September 2011, the Court of First Instance confirmed in its entirety Commission Decision C(2006) 2098 final of 31 May 2006 (Case COMP/F/38.645 (...)

GCEU, 9 September 2011, Deltafina v. Commission, Case T-12/06, "Raw Tobacco - Italy". GCEU, 9 September 2011, Alliance One International v. Commission, Case T-25/06, "Raw Tobacco - Italy". On 9 September 2011, the General Court dismissed in their entirety the two actions brought respectively (...)

Trib. UE, June 7, 2011, Total and Elf Aquitaine v. Commission, Case T-206/06, "Methacrylates". Trib. EU, June 7, 2011, Arkema France and others v. Commission, Case T-217/06, "Methacrylates". In two judgments delivered on 7 June 2011, the Court of First Instance confirmed the fine imposed in (...)

GCEU, 13 July 2011, Shell Petroleum a.o. v. Commission, Case T-38/07, "Rubber". GCEU, 13 July 2011, ENI v. Commission, Case T-39/07, "Rubber". GCEU, 13 July 2011, Dow Chemical a.o. v. Commission, Case T-42/07, "Rubber". GCEU, 13 July 2011, Kaučuk v. Commission, case T-44/07, "Rubber". GCEU, (...)

Trib. EU, 16 June 2011, Ziegler v Commission, Case T-199/08, "International removal services". Trib. UE, 16 June 2011, Team Relocations and Amertranseuro International and Others v Commission, cases T-199/08 and T-212/08, "International removal services". Trib. UE, 16 June 2011, Gosselin (...)

Trib. UE, June 7, 2011, Total and Elf Aquitaine v. Commission, Case T-206/06, "Methacrylates". Trib. EU, June 7, 2011, Arkema France and others v. Commission, Case T-217/06, "Methacrylates". In two judgments delivered on 7 June 2011, the Court of First Instance confirmed the fine imposed in (...)

GCEU, 14 April 2011, Visa Europe and Visa International Service v. Commission, Case T-461/07 Primarily, by way of an action for annulment of Commission Decision C(2007)4471 final of 3 October 2007 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC and Article 53 of the EEA Agreement (COMP/D1/37860 - (...)

Trib. EU, 24 March 2011, Viega v Commission, Case T-375/06, "Fittings". Trib. UE, 24 March 2011, Legris Industries v. Commission, Case T-376/06, "Fittings". Trib. EU, 24 March 2011, Comap v Commission, Case T-377/06, "Fittings". Trib. EU, 24 March 2011, IMI and Others v Commission, Case (...)

Trib. EU, 8 March 2011, World Wide Tobacco España v Commission, Case T-37/05, "Raw Tobacco - Spain". In a judgment of 8 March 2011, the Court of First Instance confirmed to a very large extent Commission Decision C(2004) 4030 final of 20 October 2004 concerning the cartel on the Spanish market (...)

CJEU, 3 March 2011, AG2R Prévoyance, case C-437/09 (See also, infra, "Unilateral practices", obs. A.-L. Sibony and "Public Sector", obs. J.-Ph. Kovar) Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunal de grande instance de Périgueux (France), the Court of Justice was asked to rule, in (...)

Trib. EU, 3 February 2011, Cetarsa v. Commission, Case T-33/05, "Raw Tobacco - Spain". In a judgment of 3 February 2011, the Court of First Instance confirmed to a very large extent Commission Decision C(2004) 4030 final of 20 October 2004 on the cartel on the Spanish market for the purchase (...)

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1217/2010 of 14 December 2010 on the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to certain categories of research and development agreements, OJEU No L. 335 of 18 December 2010, p. 36. Commission Regulation (EU) No (...)

Trib. EU, 27 October 2010, Alliance One International and Others v. Commission, Case T-24/05. In a judgment of 27 October 2010, the Court of First Instance partially upheld Commission Decision C(2004) 4030 final of 20 October 2004 relating to the cartel on the Spanish market for the purchase (...)

GCEU, 13 September 2010, Trioplast Industrier v. Commission, Case T-40/06 By judgment of 13 September 2010, the General Court partially annulled Commission Decision C(2005) 4634 final of 30 November 2005 relating to the cartel on the industrial bags market extended to the territories of (...)

CJEU, 1 July 2010, Knauf Gips v Commission, Case C-407/08 P, In a judgment on appeal delivered on 1 July 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld the fine imposed on Knauf Gips KG as the party responsible for the entire conduct of the Knauf Group. For the purposes of this (...)

CJEU, 17 June 2010, Lafarge v Commission, Case C-413/08 P In a judgment on appeal delivered on June 17, 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of July 8, 2008 in CaseT 54/03 Lafarge v. Commission (not published in the (...)

General Court, 19 May 2010, Wieland-Werke a.o. v. Commission, Case T-11/05, Copper plumbing tube industry General Court, 19 May 2010, IMI a.o. v. Commission, Case T-18/05, Copper plumbing tube industry General Court, 19 May 2010, Boliden a.o. v. Commission, Case T-19/05, Copper plumbing tube (...)

ECJ, November 12, 2009, Le Carbone Lorraine v. Commission, Case C-554/08 P ECJ, 12 November 2009, SGL Carbon v Commission, Case C-564/08 P These two rulings handed down on the same day dismissed the appeals brought respectively by Carbone Lorraine and SGL Carbon against the CFI rulings of (...)

ECJ, 6 October 2009, GlaxoSmithKline and Others, cases C-501/06, C-513/06, C-515/06 and C-519/06P. By Decision 2001/791/EC of 8 May 2001 relating to a proceeding under Article 81 EC [Cases: IV/36.957/F3, Glaxo Wellcome (notification); IV/36.997/F3, Aseprofar and Fedifar (complaint); (...)

– CFI, 30 September 2009, Hoechst GmbH v. Commission, caseT-161/05 CFI, 30 September 2009, Arkema SA v. Commission, case T-168/05 CFI, 30 September 2009, Elf Aquitaine SA v. Commission, case T-174/05 CFI, 30 September 2009, Akzo Nobel NV a.o. v. Commission, case T-175/05 Four actions for (...)

ECJ, 24 September 2009, Erste Group Bank AG and Others v Commission, cases C-125/07 P, C-133/07 P, C-135/07 P and C-137/07 P, "Club Lombard" case In support of their appeals against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 14 December 2006 in Joined Cases T (...)

In support of their appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 12 December 2007 in Case T 30/05 Prym and Prym Consummer v Commission (not published in the ECR) (see note C. S., ConcurrencesNo. 4-2007, pp. 64-65.), the applicants put forward five (...)

ECJ (Ord.), 3 September 2009, Lubricantes y Carburantes Galaicos SL (Lubricarga) v GALP Energía España SAU, Case C-506/07 Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Audiencia Provincial de la Coruña (Spain) by order adopted on the basis of the first subparagraph of Article 104(3) of the Rules of (...)

ECJ, 3 September 2009, William Prym GmbH & Co KG and Others v Commission, Case C-534/07 P In support of their appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 12 December 2007 in Case T 30/05 Prym and Prym Consummer v Commission (not published in (...)

ECJ, 9 July 2009, Archer Daniels Midlands Co. v. Commission, Case C-511/06 P In support of his appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 27 September 2006 in Case T 59/02 Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) v Commission [2006] ECR II 3627 (see footnote (...)

ECJ, 2.4.09, Pedro IV Servicios SL v. Total España SA, case C-260/07 Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona (Spain) has once again given the Court of Justice an opportunity to interpret the provisions of Article 81 EC and Articles 11 and 12 of Commission (...)

ECJ, 19 March 2009, Archer Daniels Midland v Commission, Case C-510/06 P In support of its appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 27 September 2006 in CaseT 329/01 Archer Daniels Midland v Commission [2006] ECR II 3255, by which the Court (...)

ECJ, 20 November 2008, Competition Authority v. Beef Industry Development Society Ltd, Barry Brothers (Carrigmore) Meats Ltd, case. C-209/07 Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Supreme Court of Ireland has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities for a preliminary (...)

ECJ, 11 September 2008, CEPSA Estacione de Servicio SA, case C-279/06 Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Audiencia Provincial de Madrid (Spain) was made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities by order of the Audiencia Provincial de Madrid (Provincial Court, Madrid), which (...)

CFI, 8 July 2008, Saint-Gobain Gyproc Belgium NV v. Commission, "Plasterboard", Case T-50/03 CFI, 8 July 2008, Knauf Gips KG v. Commission, "Plasterboard", Case T-52/03 CFI, 8 July 2008, BPB plc v. Commission, "Plasterboard", Case T-53/03 CFI, 8 July 2008, Lafarge SA v. Commission, (...)

CFI, 8 July 2008, AC-Treuhand AG v. Commission, "Organic peroxides", case T-99/04 In its Decision 2005/349/EC of 10 December 2003, the Commission imposed sanctions under Article 81 EC on several undertakings, including three producers of organic peroxides, in connection with a cartel concluded (...)

ECJ, 22 May 2008, Evonik Degussa GmbH v Commission, Case C-266/06 P Appeal against the judgmentof the Court of First Instance of 5 April 2006 in Case T 279/02 Degussa v Commission, see in particular note by Mr Debroux, ConcurrencesNo 3-2006, p. 85.), the Court of Justice confirmed the solution (...)

ECJ (Ord.), 5 May 2008, Hospital Consulting Srl and Others v Esaote SpA and Others, Case C-386/07. Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities by the Consiglio di Stato (Italy) for a preliminary ruling on the compatibility of Italian national legislation on the (...)

ECJ, 13 March 2008, Ioannis Doulamis, case C-446/05 Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities by the Tribunal de première instance de Bruxelles (Belgium) for a preliminary ruling on the compatibility of national legislation on the conditions governing the (...)

ECJ, Opinion of Advocate General Mengozzi,13 March 2008, CEPSA, Estaciones de Servicio SA v. LV Tobar e Hijos SL, case C-279/06 In his Opinion on a question referred for a preliminary ruling by the Audiencia Provincial de Madrid (Spain), concerning the terms of a service station contract, (...)

ECJ, 11 December 2007, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato v. Ente Tabacchi italiani - ETI SpA, case C-280/06 Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities by order of the Consiglio di Stato (Italy), for a preliminary ruling in the proceedings pending (...)

ECJ, Opinion of Advocate General Bot, 22 November 2007, Procureur du Roi v. Ioannis Doulamis, case C-446/05 In his Opinion on the question referred by the Cour de première instance de Bruxelles (Brussels Court of First Instance) for a preliminary ruling on the compatibility with the provisions (...)

CFI, 25 October 2007, SP SpA and others v. Commission, Cases T-27/03, T-46/03, T-58/03, T-79/03, T-80/03, T-97/03 and T-98/03. CFI, 25 October 2007, Riva Acciaio SpA v. Commission, case T-45/03 CFI, 25 October 2007, Feralpi Siderurgica SpA v. Commission, case T-77/03 CFI, 25 October 2007, (...)

CFI, 12 September 2007, William Prym GmbH & Co KG, Prym Consumer GmbH & Co KG v. Commission, Case T-30/05 An action for annulment brought by William Prym and Prym Consumer (hereinafter ’the applicants’) was brought before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities. The Court (...)

CFI, 12 September 2007, Coasts Holdings Ltd, J&P Coats Ltd v Commission, Case T-36/05 By a second action for annulment of Commission Decision C (2004) 4221 final of 26 October 2004, this time brought by Coats Holdings Ltd and J&P Coats Ltd (hereinafter ’the applicants’), the Court of (...)

ECJ, 7 June 2007, Britannia Alloys & Chemicals Ltd v Commission, "Zinc Phosphate", Case C-76/06 P Appeal brought by Britannia Alloys against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of 29 November 2005 inCase T 33/02 Britannia Alloys & Chemicals v Commission [2005] ECR II-4973, (...)

CFI, 1st ch., 24 May 2007, Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutschland v. Commission, Case T-289/01 An action for annulment brought by Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutschland (hereinafter ’the applicant’ or ’DSD’) was brought before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities, in (...)

ECJ (order), 26 January 2007, Auto Peter Petschenig GmbH v. Toyota Frey Austria GmbH, Case C-273/06. Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities by the Handelsgericht Wien (Austria) for a preliminary ruling on the consequences of the expiry on 30 September 2002 (...)

ECJ, 18 January 2007, City Motors Groep NV, case C-421/05 Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities by the Rechtbank van Koophandel te Brussel (Belgium) for a preliminary ruling on the question whether Article 3(6) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1400/2002 of (...)

ECJ, Opinion of Advocate General Mengozzi, 11 January 2007, Holcim v. Commission, case C-282/05 P Advocate General Mengozzi proposes, as regards the unlawfulness of the Community’s conduct, that the judgment of the Court of First Instance be upheld in so far as, in view of the complex nature of (...)

ECJ, 14 December 2006, Confederación Española de Empresarios de Estaciones de Servicio v. Compañía Española de Petróleos SA, Case C-217/05 Reference for a preliminary ruling by the Tribunal Supremo (Spain) from the Tribunal Supremo, the Court of Justice has specified the conditions under which an (...)

CFI, 14 December 2006, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG a.o. v. Commission, Joined Cases T-259/02 to T-264/02 and T-271/02 In 2002, the European Commission sanctioned a number of Austrian banks, commonly referred to as the "Lombard Club", which had participated in a series of agreements and (...)

ECJ, 6 December 2006, Frederico Cipolla v. Rosaria Portolese; Stefano Macrino and Claudia Capodarte v. Roberto Meloni, Joined Cases C-94/04 and C-202/04 Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities by the Corte d’appello di Torino (Italy) and the Tribunal di Roma (...)

ECJ, 30 November 2006, A. Brünsteiner GmbH and Autohaus Hilgert GmbH v Bayerische Motorenwerke AG (BMW), Joined Cases C-376/05 and C-377/05. Reference has been made to the Court of Justice of the European Communities by the Bundesgerichtshof (Germany) for a preliminary ruling on the (...)