Fines: The Court of Justice of the European Union annuls the judgment of the General Court of the European Union on the grounds of breach of the principle of equal treatment in the calculation of the fine (Pometon)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 18 March 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in case C-440/19 (Pometon SpA v European Commission). It will be recalled that in this case, the General Court of the Union had, through a judgment delivered on 28 March 2019 in case T-433/16 (Pometon SpA v. European Commission)annulled Article 2 of the decision of 25 May 2016 fixing the amount of the fine imposed on Pometon SpA for its participation in a single and continuous infringement concerning prices in the metal abrasive shot sector, the said infringement consisting of the coordination of its pricing behaviour and covering the whole of the EEA, at €6 197 000.