Anticompetitive practices - Appeal against a decision of the Commission: The CJEU annuls, due to an insufficiency of reasoning and for placing an impossible burden of proof on one of the parties, the General court’s judgement that prevented a company condemned by the Commission for participating to a cartel from appealing against the decision of the Commission because the company had already paid the fine imposed by the decision <em(Mindo)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Severe call to order for the Court of First Instance of the Union on behalf of one of the aspects of the Italian raw tobacco case. By judgment of 11 April 2013 in Case C-652/11 (Mindo Srl), the Court of Justice of the European Union set aside a judgment of the Court of First Instance on the two grounds of insufficiency of for giving reasons and for imposing a burden of proof on the applicant impossible to satisfy. It will be recalled that on 5 October 2011, the General Court of the Union ruled on three further appeals against the decision adopted by the Commission on 20 October 2005 in the raw tobacco cartel case Italian. In those actions, the Court of First