Attendance at meetings: The Court of First Instance of the European Union rules that an operator’s failure to take a clear position at a meeting organized with a view to setting up anticompetitive practices can be considered as taking part in the violation (Westfalen Gassen Nederland)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Court of First Instance of the European Communities, 5 December 2006, Case T-303/02, Westfalen Gassen Nederland BV v. Commission Facts In 2002, the Commission condemned several companies operating in the industrial and medical gases sector in the Netherlands for anti-competitive cartels. In particular, these operators were accused of agreeing on price [1]increases at meetings. One of them brought an action before the Court of First Instance (CFI). He argued that, in view of his behaviour at the meetings, he could not be considered to have agreed to participate in the practices in question. The Court of First Instance dismisses the action. Decision "The