Cartel: The General Court reminds the Commission that the finding of a recidivism implies an identity of author for similar offenses in the case of the cartel in the market of butadiene rubber and emulsion styrene

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 13 July 2011, the Tribunal delivered a further series of judgements in the Butadiene Rubber and Styrene Rubber Cartel case— butadiene. All the undertakings sanctioned by the Commission have formed an appeal against the decision of 29 November 2006, with some success for most of them, with the exception of the Shell group companies in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The Commission also decided to refer the case to the Court of First Instance of the European Communities, which dismissed all their arguments and imposed a fine of EUR 160,88 million. million