Cartels: The EU General Court confirms the fines imposed on five companies for their participation in the cartels on the industrial thread markets (Cousin Filterie e.a.)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. With the exception of the reformation of a point which is, after all, marginal and leading only to a reduction of fines of EUR 123 200, the Court of First Instance, by four judgments delivered today, 28 April 2010, confirmed all the Commission's analyses adopted in the yarn cartel case for the automotive and industrial wire industry in the decision of Commission C (2005) 3452 of 14 September 2005. Following the denunciation by an operator, the Commission discovered that there were evidence enabling it to establish and sanction the existence of two agreements, the first involving three companies, from the from May 1998 to 15 May 2000, on the market for