Single and continuous infringement: The General Court of the European Union halves the fine imposed on a company in the case of the car battery recycling cartel (Campine)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article in French, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 7 November 2019, the Court of First Instance of the European Union delivered a judgment in a case concerning concerning the concepts of single and continuous infringement and single and repeated infringement, in Case T-240/17 (Campine NV and Campine Recycling NV v European Commission). By the terms of the present judgment, the Court of First Instance annuls in part the Commission's decision of 8 February 2017.by which the Commission imposed fines of EUR 68 million on three undertakings - Campine, Eco-Bat Technologies and Recylex - for their participation in a cartel in the field of automotive battery recycling aimed at fixing the purchase