CASE COMMENTS: ANTICOMPETITIVE PRACTICES – ARTICLE 101 TFEU – FINES – SIZE OF THE MARKET – DURATION OF THE INFRINGEMENT – ADJUSTMENT – MARKET FOR COPPER INDUSTRIAL TUBES

Fines: The Court of Justice dismisses appeals and examines specifically the elements of calculation of the fines in the copper industrial tubes case (KME Germany)

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*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. 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 Justice of the European Union delivered two judgments in Cases C-272/09 P and C-389/10 P brought on appeal by several companies of the KME group. These two judgments, together with the judgment delivered on the same day inCase C-386/10 Chalkor AE Epexergasias Metallon v Commission, will undoubtedly be of interest to the reader as regards the reasons, reproduced almost

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