Effect on trade between Member States: The EU Court of Justice confirms the decision of the Commission striking down a cartel that had effect on trade between Member States even if the participants are all form the same Member State (Lombard cartel)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a judgment delivered on 24 September 2009, the Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ) held that the European Communities, departing from the conclusions submitted by Advocate General Bot, in Joined Cases C-125/07, C-133/07, C-135/07 and C-137/07, dismissed in their entirety the numerous four banks - Erste , RZB, BA-CA and ÖVAG - for seek the annulment of the judgment of the CFI of 14 December 2006, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich and Others v Commission (T-259/02 to T-264/02 and T-264/02 and T-264/02) T-271/02, ECR p. II-5169), by which the Court dismissed their action. for the annulment of the Commission's decision of 11 June 2002 in Case