Imputability of infringements: EU Court of Justice Advocate General Kokott invites the Court to continue the practice established in the presumption of liability of the parent company for the actions of its subsidiaries (Akzo Nobel)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. We will also see the very interesting conclusions presented on the day, 23 April 2009 by Advocate General Juliane Kokott in Case C-97/08 (Akzo Nobel NV and Others v Commission), in which it urges the Court of Justice to uphold at all costs its case law in the field of the of imputation of infringements of competition law under which the liability of a parent company can be brought into play for the infringements of the antitrust law committed by its subsidiaries, where such infringements the company has a decisive influence on the latter and the exercise of the of such influence can be presumed when the parent company is owner of the wholly-owned