Limitation period: The General Court reminds the Commission that it needs to demonstrate a legitimate interest when wanting to prove an infringement of competition rules as the latter has already ceased and that, moreover, the limitation period has passed (Sumitomo Chemical)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 6 October 2005 in Luxembourg there was much discussion of the statute of limitations, both in terms of the before the Court of Justice and before the Court of First Instance of the European Communities. European Communities. Both were indeed called upon to take action against each other. rule on statute of limitations issues. But where the court was to consider the consequences of the prescription of certain antitrust infringements - in this case, in the vitamins cartel case, the Court had to deal with the a limitation period problem in a State aid case. Let us begin with today's Judgment of 6 October 2005 of the Court of First Instance of the European