Price-fixing and market-sharing: The EU Court of First Instance confirms the Commission decision regarding a cartel and provides some clarification on the method of setting fines and the need to take into account repeated infringements (Market for copper industrial tubes)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. CFI, 6 May 2009, T-122/04, Case Outokumpu and Luvata v Commission CFI, 6 May 2009, T-127/04, Case KME Germany and Others v Commission On 6 May 2009, the Court of First Instance of the European Communities The decision of the Commission of the European Communities fully confirms the decision of the 16 December 2003, by which it had fined six companies to 78.73 million - Outokumpu ('18.13 million), the KME Group (EUR 39,81 million) and Wieland-Werke (EUR 20,79 million) - for their participation in the industrial copper tube cartel involving prices and market allocation. It dismisses all the actions introduced by the three companies. As this has