Fines - Art. 15.2 Reg. 17: The ECJ confirms its prior case law on the calculation of fines under Art. 15(2) of Regulation 17 (Evonik Degussa)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – ECJ, 22 May 2008, Evonik Degussa GmbH v Commission, Case C-266/06 P By a judgment delivered without an Opinion of the Advocate General, in a case which does not raise any new point of law but which nevertheless merits mention, the Court confirms its case-law on the method of determining the amount of the fine imposed on an undertaking, pursuant to Article 15(2) of Council Regulation No 17 of 6 February 1962, First Regulation implementing Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty, for participating in a cartel. This case-law is transposable to fines imposed under Council Regulation 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition laid