CASE COMMENTS: PROCEDURES - ANTICOMPETITIVE PRACTICES -ANTICOMPETITIVE PRACTICES - LIABILITY - QUALIFICATION OF THE PARENT ENTITY AS AN UNDERTAKING (NO) - DECISIVE INFLUENCE OF THE PARENT ENTITY ON THE SUBSIDIARY (YES)

Liability: The CJEU affirms that the unlawful conduct of a subsidiary is imputable to the entity controlling the shareholdings regardless of the qualification of the entity as an undertaking, as long as it exercises a decisive influence on the subsidiary and therefore constitutes with it an undertaking as defined by competition law, and annuls the judgement of the General Court of the 16th of June 2011, conditioning the imputation to the parent company to the circumstance that the parent entity is directly engaged in an economic activity (Portielje, Gosselin Group, Ziegler, Team Relocations)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. CJEU, 11 July 2013, Judgment in Case C-429/11 (Gosselin Group NV) CJEU, 11 July 2013, Judgment in Case C-439/11 (Ziegler SA) CJEU, 11 July 2013, Judgment in Case C-444/11 (Team Relocations NV and others) In a series of four judgments handed down on 11 July 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union has put an end to the cartel case on the market for international removal services in Belgium. In three judgments in Cases C-429/11 (Gosselin Group NV), C-439/11 (Ziegler SA) and C-444/11 (Team Relocations NV and Others), the Court dismissed the appeals of five companies against the judgments of the General Court of 16 June 2011 in which it upheld the

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