Cartel: The CJEU rejects the appeal directed against the General Court’s judgement in the in butadiene rubber and emulsion styrene butadiene rubber cartel case and maintains the fines (Dow Chemical)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a judgment delivered on 18 July 2013 in Case C-499/11 (The Dow Chemical Company), the Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed the appeal brought by the Dow Chemical Group companies against the fines imposed on them for their participation in the butadiene rubber and styrene-butadiene rubber cartel and confirmed the amount of their fines. On 13 July 2011, the General Court of the European Union delivered a series of judgments in the Butadiene Rubber and Styrene-Butadiene Rubber Cartel case. All the undertakings penalised by the Commission had brought actions against the decision of 29 November 2006, most of them with some success. In its judgment